Friday 18 November 2022
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![FILE - Scrabble games are displayed at a store in Palo Alto, California on February 9, 2009. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)]()
November 18, 2022Scrabble Dictionary Adds 500 New Words
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![FILE - Macaque monkeys climb onto a news photographer at the Phra Prang Sam Yod temple during the annual Monkey Buffet Festival in Lopburi province, north of Bangkok, Thailand, Nov. 28, 2021. (Photo by Jack TAYLOR / AFP)]()
November 12, 2022'To Have a Monkey on Your Back' Is No Laughing Matter
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![FILE - These handprints are from black paint for Spain's Black Paint Festival September 6, 2019. ( REUTERS/Jon Nazca)]()
November 05, 2022How Dirty Is 'Greasing Someone's Palm'?
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![Orangutan Nenette eats cake at Jardin des Plantes botanical garden in Paris, June 2019. (Photo: Thibault Camus/AP)]()
October 29, 2022Have Your Cake and Eat It Too
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![FILE - Environmental activists with flags on their backs bury their heads in the sand on Durban's beachfront, December 2, 2011. The protest aimed to highlight nations failing to act effectively to prevent climate change. (REUTERS/Mike Hutchings)]()
October 22, 2022'Bury Your Head in the Sand' to Avoid Difficulty
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![A picture released by the King Abdulazziz Camel Festival on January 8, 2022]()
October 15, 2022What Is the 'Straw That Broke the Camel's Back'?
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![Florence Mwale, host of Business Today show at Capita Radio, must press many buttons in an audio production studio. (L. Masina for VOA)]()
October 08, 2022What Does It Mean 'To Push Someone's Buttons'?
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![An Austrian tourist marks her path on a map in Williams, Arizona]()
October 01, 2022'All Over the Map' Can Be Good and Bad
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![One tried-and-true method of doing well in a class is joining a study group.]()
September 24, 2022The Best Way Is 'Tried-and-True'
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![Pictured here is a grilled cheese sandwich with lettuce and tomato. For a sandwich, you need slices of bread that are the same size. (File Photo)]()
September 17, 2022This Is 'The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread'!
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![A dump truck brings another load of sand to an eroded beach in North Wildwood, New Jersey. A bulldozer spreads out sand, May 24, 2022. (File Photo)]()
September 10, 2022Who Would 'Bring Sand to the Beach'?
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![FILE - A BNSF rail worker monitors the departure of a freight train on June 15, 2021, in Galesburg, Illinois.]()
September 03, 2022Where Is the 'Wrong Side of the Tracks'?
