There Goes My Life

Kenny Chesney is a country artist I can't help but love. I can't help it! He's got some great songs, lyrically, and of course that's what draws me. I love a song that tells a story to relate to people and to make people think. This song does that. I remember the first time I heard it I was in awe of how it turned around using the same words and phrasing. Really really good.
We all make mistakes but I think how we respond to them is what determines their influence on our futures. This is a song the showcases the choice of response.
To stretch things a bit - it's kind of like Mondays. We have a choice in how to respond to them. :)
Happy Monday!

There Goes My Life

Comments

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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