#ShoutOutSaturday

My #ShoutOutSaturday is for those people who have had seasons in my life and I've had seasons in theirs. Even though our season of friendship has come and gone those people I'm shouting out to because they each played a role in my life. In so many ways they contributed to my personal growth. Some of those friendships didn't end so great but I'm still grateful for them.

Here's two posts I thought conveyed today's shout out idea really well:

We’ve all had those people in our lives that we thought would stay forever.

An Open Letter To The Person Who Used To Be My Best Friend

Who has been in your life for a season or two? Give them a shout out of gratitude today for playing the part in your life they did.

Comments

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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