Specifically Greek and Australian and specifically Chobani and Noosa. I'm slightly obsessed. Yeah, yeah I don't need nor want to hear about the sugar content. I know thankyouverymuch. I don't care. Overall it is a healthier option than the Starbursts I could snack on instead. Right? Right. I am so grateful for the delicious opportunity of yogurt. My taste buds are as grateful as I am. :)
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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