Crown Him with Many Crowns

Without fail this song leads me back to Sundays in Baptist church and my Dad belting out this song. I can literally hear him singing it no matter who else is singing it. I love this song. As a kid I endured this song (as I believe all kids did when there were more than 2 verses, haha!) and as an adult I get this song. I appreciate the hearts that wrote it and were expressing love for the Lord. You cannot write a song about the victorious Christ until you have experienced the victory of Christ in your own life. And when you experience that victory you have to express it, you cannot contain it.

Crown Him with Many Crowns (Maranatha Singers)
Crown Him with Many Crowns (Robin Mark)
Crown Him with Many Crowns (Harvest Bible Chapel - updated arrangement)

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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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