I am grateful for games that bring people together to interact mostly without electronics or technology involved. Over the course of the 10 days that my brothers, sister in loves, nephew, and niece were in town visiting we played games. We rolled dice for Farkle, we flipped an iPad up or down for "Heads Up?!", we got cramps in our hands from holding 13 or more cards for Hand & Foot. We laughed, we chatted, we got competitive, we bonded. I feel so grateful for those little moments that happened through some game play.
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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