#SneakAwaySunday

How far away are you willing to drive for your #SneakAwaySunday? My radius extends to no more than an hour away or else I am spending my sneak away on the road instead of rejuvenating. You have to decide what's right for you.

Within my radius I pick a coffee house, almost always locally owned, that seems to be large enough to have niches and corners for people like me to hide in. And then I get there as fast as I can! I pop in my earbuds, put on some music for white noise, and read/write or whatever it is that I need. I drink yummy things - and depending on what's there, eat some yummy things. And I stay hidden away for as long as I can, because I know when I go back to life it's back to the grind.

Today I've got plans to head to one of my favorite coffee house spots for a sneak away. Don't take this the wrong way but I hope I don't see you there! *wink*

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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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