For Wednesday, April 24: Sweet or Sour?

When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth. Jess C. Scott

Is the way you say the names of the people you say you love sweet or sour in your mouth? Be honest. When you say their name do they feel safe in your care for them? Even in disappointment, anger, etc is the way you speak their name sweet or sour? Does the love you have for others overpower those times when you are disappointed, angry, etc? If it does their names will be as sweet as honey in your mouth. If the love is not as strong then their names will leave a pucker in your mouth and they will feel unsafe in your presence. Think about it.

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.

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.

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.

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