Meet Me In St Louis

So. Anyone wanna guess where I'm at? :) I spent the night driving from Colorado to St Louis to attend the baby shower for my nephew to be born at the end of June. So in light of the fact that I have had about 4 hours of sleep in the last day and a half and I need to get some sleep my song of the day is short, sweet, and to the point! Judy Garland stars in a film titled, "Meet me in St Louis" and todays' song is a clip of her singing the title song. Judy Garland, well known and maybe perhaps best known? for her role as Dorothy in Wizard of Oz, also did other films. She has a beautiful voice and a cheerful spirit. Enjoy!

Meet Me In St Louis

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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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