Settling into your skin

I never change, I simply become more myself. Joyce Carol Oates

I have LOVED my 30's. LOVED THEM. Why? Because I have settled into my skin. I'm still doing some settling but mostly I've become comfortable in myself. So while it seems to others, and even myself, that I have changed I haven't really. I've just become more myself. Some people have decided they don't like who I am and we have parted ways. That's okay. Some people have decided they do like who I am and they have stuck around. That's okay. And yet others (probably the ones closest to me - family and spouse) have decided that they don't know who I am and they are watching me settle in and the jury might still be out! Ha! That's okay too. There are days that I look at myself and wonder, "Who AM I?" And there are days that I'm not sure if I like who I am, who I'm not, who others think I should be. And then I remember that I'm settled and settling. Becoming more of me. And then I'm okay. How about you?

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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