Oh I am so grateful for weekends. I need them since I work outside of the home in addition to being a wife and Mom. I became even more grateful for weekends when I started working full time back in the spring and my time was cut even shorter. As the days and weeks go on here's what I am most grateful for about the weekends: time with my spiritual community, time for just me, a chance to catch up on the house and all the details it takes to run a home and work outside of the home, space to breathe, a respite from co-workers (yes there are some names of those I need a weekend break from, no I am not going to name them. *grin*), a chance to just regroup. I got up this morning a little gleeful that it was Friday and the weekend is upon us, I felt so grateful for the weekend.
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.
Comments
Post a Comment