Weird right? But I am grateful for bananas. I love them. A co-worker and I were talking about them at work today and how perfect they are. They are considered one of the perfect foods and we love them. And then I saw this article and now I'm even MORE grateful for this food!
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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