For Saturday, January 29: Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)

Ah, hair bands. AWESOME. :) Haha, my pre-teen, almost teen, redhead is like "ew". I just laugh. Cinderella. Not a band I listened to a whole bunch but this song everyone knew.
I will say that Cinderella, while not being the most attractive band, was certainly talented. The lead singer, Tom Keifer, plays piano, he plays guitar, he sings (although I'm not a huge fan of his voice in this particular song. His voice is way better on songs like Coming Home).
Don't know what you got till it's gone. Doesn't always apply to relationships which is generally when people pull out the saying and use it. Let's just take freedom for example. Sometimes you don't realize how good it was until it was gone.

Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)
Bonus Song: Coming Home

Comments

Butter someone up

There are two probable origins for this idiom and I think both are equally plausible. The first one is that when you spread butter on bread you are buttering it up like one would do when trying to flatter someone. The second is in ancient India there was a practice of throwing balls of butter at statues to ask for favor, i.e. buttering them up. ( source ) When we use the phrase today we generally mean that extreme flattery is used to gain information or favor. It's not always necessarily a compliment.

Call it a Day

The literal use of this phrase hails from 1838 when the phrase originally was "call it half a day" to mean leaving work early. (source) The modern use of the phrase is to indicate ending something due to false sense of accomplishment.

More bang for your buck

This phrase was used a lot in 1953 but an earlier citation puts it at 1940 in a Metals and Plastics Publications advertisement. Read about it here . The phrase means you get more for your money.

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