It is an expression used about four hundred years ago by British writer William Shakespeare in his play "Othello."

VOA: special.2010.05.23

Word expert Mitford Mathews says that as early as eighteen fifty-four, an American publication used the words peanut agitators.

VOA: special.2010.10.03

Tucker used more than four hundred fifty thousand Legos to make his version which is more than five meters tall.

VOA: special.2010.07.30

Women who used the gel more than eighty percent of the times when they had sex had fifty-four percent fewer HIV infections.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

The sixteen exhibits include a film recreation of the sit-in story as well as the four counter seats used by the first four protesters.

VOA: special.2010.01.29

Word expert James Rogers found a similar saying used more than four hundred years ago.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

They had used almost four million cubic meters of concrete in the dam.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

Another study involved more than four hundred college women who used tanning beds.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

Sir Thomas More used the expression in fifteen thirty-four.

VOA: special.2009.10.25

Gibbs said that Hugo Chavez has used his rhetoric in the past to incite anti-American sentiment - most notably four years ago at the last Summit of the Americas in Argentina.

VOA: standard.2009.04.20