Love Divine, All Loves Excelling

What does the love of God do? It fills, it heals, it restores, it motivates, it challenges, it compels, it shines. God's love never fails but always excels. God's love is weaved into every moment of history, even the dark moments. When we cannot see God's love it is not because God has not loved, it is because we have allowed the eyes of our hearts to become blind. Take a risk and open the eyes of your heart to God and his love. You will not be disappointed!

Love Divine, All Loves Excelling - Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Love Divine, All Loves Excelling - Wells Cathedral Choir

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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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