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Words and Their Stories: Apple Pie

A harvest of expressions that include the word apple | WORDS AND THEIR STORIES

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Words and Their Stories: Get Off My Back!

English expressions that are head and shoulders above the rest | WORDS AND THEIR STORIES

Words and Their Stories: The Cold, Hard Truth

English expressions that will leave you out in the cold. | WORDS AND THEIR STORIES

Words and Their Stories: Heart to Heart

The English language has many heartfelt expressions | WORDS AND THEIR STORIES

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on November 26

Words and Their Stories: You Don't Have to Be a Rocket Scientist

Extreme intelligence not required for this expression | WORDS AND THEIR STORIES

Words and Their Stories: Money Talks

Some business terms that will cost you | WORDS AND THEIR STORIES

Words and Their Stories: A Chip on Your Shoulder

Chipping away at some popular American expressions | WORDS AND THEIR STORIES

Words and Their Stories: All About Names

Some names have special meanings in popular American expressions | WORDS AND THEIR STORIES

Words and Their Stories: How 'Rx' Came to Be

How the symbol came to mean a doctor’s prescription | WORDS AND THEIR STORIES

Words and Their Stories: Get Your Act Together

Some expressions that might be heard at business meetings | WORDS AND THEIR STORIES

Words and Their Stories: Expressions That Hit the Spot

Colorful expressions that are a huge hit | WORDS AND THEIR STORIES

The person who keeps pulling the grapevine shakes down at least a few grapes

Words and Their Stories: Grapevine

When information spreads by word of mouth | WORDS AND THEIR STORIES

Couch potatoes enjoy watching television

Words and Their Stories: From Couch Potato to Cabin Fever

American terms to describe active and inactive lifestyles | WORDS AND THEIR STORIES

Words and Their Stories: I'm Feeling Very Blue

Many everyday American expressions are based on colors | WORDS AND THEIR STORIES

These expressions have nothing to do with getting clean

Words and Their Stories: It Will Not Wash

Does it work, or not? | WORDS AND THEIR STORIES

San Francisco 49ers head coach Mike Singletary ordered Vernon Davis off the field after the hotheaded tight end got a personal foul for slapping another player's helmet

Words and Their Stories: Hotheaded Hot Shot

Here is your hot line to heated English expressions | WORDS AND THEIR STORIES

A Chinese worker selects nuts and bolts from old computers

Words and Their Stories: Nuts and Bolts

The mechanics of any organization | WORDS AND THEIR STORIES

Words and Their Stories: Dog Talk

Some American expressions that may teach an old dog new tricks | WORDS AND THEIR STORIES

The new One World Trade Center, formerly called Freedom Tower, is shown at dawn Saturday, a day before ceremonies to mark the tenth anniversary of the attacks

Words and Their Stories: Voices From 9-11 Tell Story of Fast-Moving Events

A new report presents recordings of air controllers, military officials and hijackers as the attacks took place | WORDS AND THEIR STORIE

Three-day-old trumpeter swan babies swim together at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo in Ohio

Words and Their Stories: Swan Song

Terms that describe final events | WORDS AND THEIR STORIES

Words and Their Stories: More Clothing Expressions

My friends sometimes call me a wolf in sheep’s clothing | WORDS AND THEIR STORIES

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