#TransformationTuesday

I have unrealistic expectations about transformation. I want to do it once or for 1 minute and it PRESTO CHANGO is successful and my "work" is finished. Or when I put the time and work in I want it to stick forever with no maintenance required. Hey, I've already said they are unrealistic expectations - knowing is half the battle. *wink*

The fact is transformation is many things - work, time consuming, intentional, and requires maintenance. It's a series of choices that you have to make over and over again. It's so tedious! But it's effective and it works. So today, on this #TransformationTuesday , I'm going to think about something that I keep dropping and pick it back up and press on for the transformation I want - and most likely need.

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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.

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.

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