In everyday speech, holding your cards close to your vest means not letting other know what you are doing or thinking.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

Play it by ear also means to decide what to do at the last minute instead of making detailed plans.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

This week on our program, we ask three generations of people what the holiday for love and romance means to them.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

Just simple things so that way they get to understand what it means to be an American student."

VOA: special.2010.05.27

If you ever tried to walk on a fallen tree log, you understand what the expression means.

VOA: special.2009.06.07

This means to be interested in what is happening around you and what people are thinking.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

It is told by four speakers, each trying to discover what the story means.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

He told students it was time for them to learn what it means to be a human being on Earth at a time when every living system was failing.

VOA: special.2009.06.05

Ella wants to know what it means to "eighty-six" something.

VOA: special.2010.01.08

"Every time Americans debate the problem of states' rights, the relationship of federal power to state power -- which we are indeed having a roiling debate again -- and every time we debate not only race relations, but the very idea of what it means to be an American, multi-racial,greatly diverse society, we are debating the direct legacies of the Civil War."

VOA: special.2011.04.09

In the beginning, I wanted hits and all that, but what drives me now is what this music means to people."

VOA: standard.2009.08.04

It is time to save what we can and what we must and live within our means once again,".

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

Storylines often touched on matters of fate,destiny, spirituality,the meaning of life, or what it means to be human.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

But we wanted to have a token "Long March" and a statement in favor of what restoration of democracy means in Pakistan,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.11