O Come All Ye Faithful

There are a few Christmas songs that I love that are the traditional ones and truthfully I like to sing them other times of the year and not so much at Christmastime!
One of them is "O Come All Ye Faithful". I think I love it, in part, because it makes me remember how much I loved Christmas as a kid. And I didn't really love it for the gifts, I loved it for the magic and the meaning of the season.
This hymn, which has become a traditional Christmas song as well, is a call to the faithful. A call to those that have understood and embraced what God has done for us, who get to what lengths he has gone to to reach out to his creation. Who else would do what God has done?
So come, all ye who are faithful, and rejoice for Jesus Christ came so that we may have life abundant!

O Come All Ye Faithful (Celtic Woman)
O Come All Ye Faithful (Twisted Sister - yeah you read that right...TWISTED SISTER!!)
O Come All Ye Faithful (Chris Tomlin)
O Come All Ye Faithful (Martina McBride)

P.S. I had to include the Twisted Sister, it was SO funny to me that they did the song and I actually like their version! They rock it!!

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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