That expression comes from the days when people slept on beds filled with dried grass or hay.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

In the days before her death, Aasiya Hassan had taken legal steps to divorce her husband.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

Today's word,pan, takes us back to the days of the gold rush in California.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

Her book "Some of the Days of Everett Anderson" became the first in a series of books about a young African-American boy growing up in the city.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

You try hard to keep warm. The days are shorter and darker.

VOA: special.2009.01.26

The days are shorter. It is getting darker earlier each day.

VOA: special.2009.11.09

And the days of easy credit are gone.

VOA: special.2009.08.21

The days and nights were still the same.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

The days of the northlands were growing short.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

Those were the days of wooden sailing ships.

VOA: special.2011.07.06

He asks if Iraq wants to return to square one and the days of coups, chaos,sectarianism, al Qa'eda,and Saddam Hussein.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

It was once home to the Marquise de Sevigne, a witty French socialite during the days of Louis XIV.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

Analyst Lipman,says it appears that the days of women, working alongside men in most any job,are long gone.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

"They would say, 'We shall be wiring money to these schools in a month's time, in a week's time', and the days would go by."

VOA: standard.2010.03.04