September 27, 2015

Crush a Can Day
Air Pressure Can Crusher Experiment

Ancestor Appreciation Day

Do you know who any of your ancestors are? I've got in my paternal grandparents line two men, rather well known back in their day. One we are 'proud' of, the other we just acknowledge and move on quickly from. :) I'll 'fess up to both. Quick acknowledge: Jefferson Davis. Okay, moving on! *wink* The other one, the one we are a bit more ready to acknowledge is Patrick Henry.
What do you know about some of your ancestors?

Tourism Day
The History of Tourism
Top 10 Weird Types of Tourism
How To Be A Better Cultural Tourist
Ecotourism

Comments

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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