It's weird looking, kinda gross, but so fascinating all at the same time! And it works, amazingly well. I am speaking of the Neti Pot. My mother made me try it in the Fall when I got SO sick I had to call into work two days! I never get that sick. I was miserable. She made me do it (see how I still obey my Mama?! *wink*). And it definitely helped. Quite a bit. Then this past weekend the youngest redhead got hit hard and I went and bought a Neti Pot and made her do it three times a day and guess what? In her words, "That works miracles." She was feeling so much better after a consistent dosage of Umcka and Neti Pot that I know that kinda gross, very weird, but extremely fascinating thing works. And I'm grateful for it, it's helping get us better quicker!
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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