September 19, 2015

International Talk Like a Pirate Day

Find Yer Inner Pirate
Pirate-to-English Translator
Post Like A Pirate on Social Media

National Butterscotch Pudding Day
It seems to me butterscotch is an acquired taste and my taste buds have definitely acquired it! I love butterscotch, do you?
Make your own butterscotch pudding

Coastal Cleanup Day
In the USA alone this is how much coastline we have to keep clean.
If you live in a landlocked state consider donating to an organization that does coastal clean up.
If you live in California check out Save Our Shores and if you live along the East Coast you can check out Delaware's efforts. I didn't find any other efforts listed for the East Coast but I'm sure each state that has coastline has volunteer opportunities.

Gymnastics Day
The sport of gymnastics
Body Awareness and the Gymnastic Movement
Famous Gymnasts

International Eat an Apple Day
Bite in to an apple or three today. YUM!

Call it a Day

The literal use of this phrase hails from 1838 when the phrase originally was "call it half a day" to mean leaving work early. (source) The modern use of the phrase is to indicate ending something due to false sense of accomplishment.

More bang for your buck

This phrase was used a lot in 1953 but an earlier citation puts it at 1940 in a Metals and Plastics Publications advertisement. Read about it here . The phrase means you get more for your money.

Butter someone up

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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