Today I was listening to a favorite artist of mine, Melanie Penn, who happens to sing a favorite song of mine, Ordinary Day. (Video below) I love the song because it's about the Holy Spirit but you don't quite know that at first listen. Anyway, I was listening to the song this morning and reflecting on the Holy Spirit and realizing how grateful I am for him in my life. I am grateful for the guidance, the discernment, the warning the Holy Spirit provides me. I have relied on him to be my internal compass in my life and have yet to be directed wrong when I have heeded his direction. I love Penn's description of the Holy Spirit as he dances throughout our days and makes his presence known in a "million" different ways. It reminds me to be more aware of his presence in my days because he is there.
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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