Thanksgiving Song

Thank you Mary Chapin Carpenter for singing such a simple and beautiful song for the things that mean the most and we should reflect on during Thanksgiving. I love Mary's voice, it's earthy and pure. You can sense that she doesn't have to strive to reach a note, it just flows out of her.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! May you be blessed, may you take time to reflect on the people and things in your life that are the source of fulfillment and gratefulness.

Thanksgiving Song

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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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