Today I put recent family, immediate and extended, pictures in frames I had bought for the very purpose of said pictures. I love pictures of people that I love. I'm grateful for them because they serve as a reminder to me of what's really important at the end of the day. I look at their faces and I recall that they love me and that's a good feeling. I'm so grateful for the technology available to capture the smiles of people I love. I think about those who I love that have passed on and because of pictures I have the memory of their smile forever. And I'm grateful for pictures that capture the smiles of people I love and are still with us but miles separate us.
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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