Dude. Grab your board and let's hit the waves.

Feelings are much like waves, we can't stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf. Jonatan Martensson

Feelings are a natural and normal part of our lives. We experience them every day. We have a choice about how to let them impact us every day. Feelings play a big part in how we behave, how we speak, and what our attitude is. Here's the thing about feelings. Like Martensson aptly points out in today's quote, we have a choice. When we see the wave of hurt feelings coming at us we can choose to either jump on it and ride it out or we can let it pass. When we see a wave of anger headed straight toward us we can either ride that all the way to shore or we can hang back and let it pass. When we see a wave of happiness swell up we also have the choice to either take the wave or let it pass. There's the waves of gratitude that come at us as well, usually at times when we aren't feeling so grateful. Sometimes we've got two different kinds of waves staring us down. And we have a choice about which one to choose. As you can see we have a lot of decisions to make about those "feeling waves" in a very short amount of time. Choose carefully or you just may experience a gnarly wipe out. (I had to do it - I had to work a surfing term in! Ha!)

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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