#FreshAirFridays

No matter what time of year it is I love the morning air. It's not new but it feels new and smells new.

I was curious if there were any extra benefits to getting your fresh air in the mornings, and while there were no extra benefits it IS recommended by almost every source Google pulled up that we all start out mornings with a deep inhale of the fresh morning air.

So if you want to start your day fresh, follow these 3 steps:

1. Just Get Up!: When the alarm goes off, try not to think of anything. Do not give the power to those negative thoughts. Just get up no matter how it feels like. You don’t have to like, you just have to do it.

2. Wake Up Your Body: When you’re out of the bedroom, do not walk straight to the coffee machine. Stretch a bit. Move your body in some way or another before you sit down for the first time. You do know that stretching improves digestion too?

3. Breathe In Fresh Air: Go out on a balcony or open the window. Or take a short walk outside. Just have some fresh air. Let it take away your sleepiness and start your day fresh.
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Happy #FreshAirFridays!

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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