The Little Drummer Boy/Peace On Earth

Bing Crosby and David Bowie singing together? Merry Christmas indeed! :) Thanks to my friend, Tracy, for shooting this one my way. This is one of her holiday fave's.
I can't get over how young David Bowie looks or rather is in this video! So crazy!
When my hub would play in a band and do warm up on his bass he always played The Little Drummer Boy so it's always been a favorite of mine. I loved hearing him play bass.
I always loved the role that the little drummer boy played in the birth of our Savior. I love how God surrounded the Savior with all these people that seemed insignificant and yet were vital to the event and the message of the birth of Christ. I love that God still does that today. He uses seemingly insignificant people to do vital work. What a gift of grace!

The Little Drummer Boy/Peace On Earth

Comments

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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