Blessed Assurance, Jesus is Mine

There are some songs that just take me right back to my early church years. This is one of them. And as I have gotten older I have come into a deep appreciation for the message and the meaning behind the lyrics.

"This is my story, this is my song..." And it is my story and my song, I hope it is yours too. The assurance of Jesus and his presence in my life is what gets me through life. I know some people may look at my life, or their own lives, and think that the presence of Jesus doesn't help it much or at all BUT I know what I know and I know his presence is the only thing that has gotten me through the darkest moments of life. Were it not for him, were it not for the assurance of him, the confidence in his presence I am not sure that I would be upright!

Blessed assurance indeed...

Blessed Assurance, Jesus is Mine (sung by Third Day)

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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.

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.

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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