I'm serious! I am so grateful for bread. I'm grateful for how delicious it is, how filling it is, how I have so many varieties and options when it comes to bread. I'm grateful for bread that gives hope to a person experiencing hunger pains and for the Bread of Life that gives hope to the person experiencing spiritual hunger pains.
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.
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