The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia

I love Reba. LOVE HER. I love her so much that I even watched her sitcom and loved that because of her! The song I picked of Reba's for today is one of my favorite from back in the day. When I was a Junior and Senior in High School I worked at a lovely place called The Glen Eyrie and I worked really early mornings and really late nights and I'd blast the country music radio as I drove to and from work on really dark roads. This song had hit the charts at that time and my memories of this song are always coupled with getting to and from work on dark roads, Reba's voice keeping me company. I also love Reba because she tells a good story and this song is a good story! I remember the first time I heard it and understood the "who done it" and was so awed by how she weaved a total story together in 3-4 minutes. Reba is genius!

The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia

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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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