Mouth Expressions: The Experience Left a Bad Taste in My Mouth

People use their mouths for many things. They eat, talk, shout and sing.  They smile and they kiss.  In the English language, there are many expressions using the word mouth. But some of them are not so nice.
For example, if you say bad things about a person, the person might protest and [...]

He Took the Blame for Someone Else

Every week at this time, the Voice of America tells about popular words and expressions used in the United States. Some expressions have made a jump from sports events to everyday life. One such expression is fall guy. A fall guy is the person who someone decides will be the loser or victim.
The first [...]

What Does the Average Joe Think?

A person’s name is very important. Some names also have special meanings in popular American expressions.  To better understand what I mean, sit back and listen.  You might even want to get a cup of Joe, I mean, a cup of coffee.
One day, an average Joe was walking down the street.  [...]

If a Student’s Grades Hit Bottom, It Is Time to Hit the Books

VOA Special English Program မွ Words and Their Stories ဟာ စကားလံုးေတြကို တကယ့္ျဖစ္ရပ္မွန္ေတြ၊ အျဖစ္အျပက္ဇာတ္လမ္းေလးေတြကတစ္ဆင့္ အဂၤလိပ္စာကို အေကာင္းဆံုးေလ့လာနိုင္တဲ့ အစီအစဥ္ေကာင္းတစ္ခုျဖစ္ပါတယ္၊၊ ေခတ္ေပၚစကားလံုး အသံုးအႏွူံး ေတြကို လည္းေလ့လာနိုင္ပါတယ္၊၊
ဒီတစ္ပတ္ “Hit” နဲ ့ပတ္သက္တာေတြကိုတင္ျပထားပါတယ္၊၊
Hit is a small word but it has a lot of power.  Baseball players hit the ball.  Missiles hit an airplane.  A car hits a tree.
Hit also joins with other words [...]

Dragons and Princesses

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
I was in Tokyo last spring, walking beneath neon signs and cherry [...]