For Monday, December 27: Hope Now

Emily Dickinson said, "“Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all.”
Sometimes all we have is hope to cling to. With hope we can realize that we are not alone, we are held fast by the one who created us. When we lose hope we lose a vital part of life, we lose what will get us up everyday. I hope and pray that you have hope and that it has found a resting place in your soul.

Hope Now

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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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