No, not the book or movie. :) The actual color purple. I not only love the color purple, I am grateful for it. Sounds weird right? It's not as weird when you hear my reason why. The color purple reminds me of who I belong to and whose I am. It reminds me that I am royalty, not of this earth but of the One who created this earth. It reminds me that I need to act like royalty, both in my heart and on the surface of my life.
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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