This expression makes the person left holding the bag responsible for an action, often a crime or misdeed.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

Other experts say the word cheese in this expression was really an incorrect way of saying chief.

VOA: special.2011.05.08

In the past, this expression was used as an argument to re-elect a president, especially during a time when the country was at war.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

This expression describes a young man who has many good qualities and a bright future.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

This expression means to get to the bottom or most important part of something.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

He says newspapers in Cincinnati,Ohio used this expression in the eighteen seventies.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

Now,this expression is heard often when officials of a company meet.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

This expression goes back at least to the early sixteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

Now,we admit that we do not know how this expression developed.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

British writer Charles Dickens used this expression in eighteen forty-three.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

He wrote that he often hears this expression in movies.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

President Jefferson himself used this expression.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

This powerful form of creative expression usually involves art made outside the limits and rules of official culture.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

Some language experts think this different taste is responsible for the birth of the expression baloney.

VOA: special.2010.09.26