Today I am grateful for a two hour delay. Sometimes I am grumpy about them (like when they are called for wind, and no I am not kidding!) but days like today I am grateful for them. See my husband gives me a road report since he leaves for work before we leave for school and work. The two hour delay gives me a chance to mentally prepare myself to drive on dangerous roads. While I'm doing that I'm also given the chance to do some dinner prep, catch up on some laundry, walk a little longer on the treadmill, or catch up on a TV show. Oh, did you think I slept in? Yeah no, ain't no Mama got time for that! But I am grateful for the delay and the chance to catch up on some things.
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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