Arpeggios From Hell

Ha! Caught your attention didn't I?!? :)
So Yngwie Malmsteen is a great (and that's an understatement) guitar player. Too bad he knows it. :) Hailing from Sweden, Yngwie probably entered this world with a guitar in his hand. To get as good as he is he would have had to start playing from birth. Unless he's a prodigy...there's always that option!
Yngwie has been, in the past, labeled the world's fastest guitar picker. He really IS amazing. Looking at him playing guitar you almost think there's no way he's actually playing because his fingers become with the neck and the frets and he looks like he's gliding his hand up and down the notes. But he is, in fact, moving his fingers and hitting every note perfectly. Yngwie has never been the radio hit type but Lanny tells me he did have one radio hit back in the 90's. But I loved the title of this piece so I choose it! Plus this piece is only about 2 and a half minutes whereas I'm sure the radio hit is longer. And really for most of us 2.5 minutes is just about enough!

Arpeggios From Hell

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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.

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.

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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