Dixieland Delight

Man does this song make me happy! When I was younger my Dad would sometimes play an Alabama cassette (man am I old! HA!) while we were driving. Most often at night we would be traveling back home, and in the summer the windows would be rolled down and the mountain breeze would be blowing through the car, and this song would come on and our family would come alive! About 3:15 into the song it goes into this instrumental hoedown and each of us would pick an instrument to air play and we would go nuts! I mean we must have looked like a bunch of crazies air playing our instruments and singing at the top of our lungs. Every time I hear this song I start giggling uncontrollably and I can close my eyes and see my brothers and I, squished together in the back seat, going nuts on our instruments and singing ourselves hoarse. What I wouldn't give for a repeat of that!

I hope you have fun listening in!
Dixieland Delight

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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