For Friday, March 29: Cliff Diving

Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith. Margaret Shepard

Sometimes I feel like I am standing on a cliff and whether I turn to my left or right or look in front or in back of me the only way to get off the cliff is to leap. Sometimes it is the only way to get from point A to point B. But too often that leap looks to scary, to intimidating to impossible. But if point B is the destination then I have got to muster up my courage, squeeze my eyes shut if I must, and step off into the unknown, trusting that point B will catch me. Sometimes all we have is faith in the form of a leap. Trust your instinct about to take it, you have more courage than you think you do.

Comments

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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