Letting Hope move in

The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. Barbara Kingsolver

Hope. The word holds promise, anticipation, expectations, confidence. What do you Hope for? Have you figured it out? Life lacks sparkle when we have no Hope. We all Hope. It's impossible for us not too but sometimes the Hope scares us so we try to deny we have any. But it's there. Skating around the edges of your heart and breathing life that you need into your soul. It's the denial of its existence that causes us to live outside of it. Don't do that. Allow it to infuse you, allow it to whisper to you. Let it live in you and you in it. Too often we look at Hope as something for others, unattainable, inaccessible so we stay far away from it. It's like the house in our own neighborhood that we drive by everyday and admire but think we can't or don't deserve to live in it. Not true. We can live in Hope, we should live in Hope. We should let it move into us and give our lives the sparkle they need.

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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