Footloose and fancy free

On with the dance, let joy be unconfined. Mark Twain

To be confined means to be limited or restricted in some way. It means that you are held up or in bondage (whether that is physical or figuratively). So to be unconfined is the opposite. It means we have the ability to be footloose and fancy free. Twain's advice in today's quote is much deeper than how most may read it on the surface.
Joy cannot, indeed should not, be confined. It should be allowed to dance throughout our days and our lives, unhindered by circumstances or physical restrictions. Joy is possible even when the surfaces of our lives indicate it shouldn't be. Joy is able to transcend the immediate and introduce a dance to get us through. Joy is something that cannot be fettered, its strength breaks the chains that restrict us. Some days the dance joy introduces is a waltz, other days it is hip-hop. The dance of joy in your life will look different with your days but let it have its way and make you footloose and fancy free, even in the midst of the surfaces of your life.

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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