I am really grateful for my crock pot. It helps me provide my family good and hot meals. It does the cooking for me while I'm at work. And the meal in a crock pot has really evolved over the years, I have tons of recipes that work well!
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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