The Thunder Rolls

Oh my gosh. I cannot believe how difficult it was to find authentic Garth Brooks on YouTube amongst the gazillions of covers done! Sheesh! I don't want covers, I want the real deal! I cannot help but love Garth Brooks. I have several of his CDs and I love him! He's another one whose voice carried me to and from my job at The Glen Eyrie back in the day.
This song was especially impactful winding through the dark roads of The Glen toward the Castle. I have very clear memories of listening to it while driving those roads. So strange what kind of memories stick with us.
By now it won't surprise you that one of the reasons I love Garth and this song is because of the story it tells. The comparisons are great.
Garth. One of the best, maybe ever.

The Thunder Rolls

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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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