Just The Way You Are

This song makes me think of my hub. I am forever telling him how blind he is! Everyday he's telling me how beautiful he thinks I am. He's nuts. :) He gets "mad" at me when I don't thank him. *Rolling eyes* But I think this is the song he would sing to me because he really believes it. What I have done to deserve a man who thinks I'm beautiful at every stage of life - fat, thin, first off in the morning, late at night and all the in betweens is beyond me! I did nothing to deserve him so I guess he is another example of God's grace in my life. :) Lanny believes I am beautiful just the way I am and I believe he is still as blind as a bat! HA!
But this is a great song and I love a man that thinks his woman is beautiful no matter what. Because it is true that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and so much of what we possess on the inside makes us beautiful on the outside. There's that movie, Shallow Hal, that I actually really like because it highlights that principle that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it's what inside of us that shines outwardly.

Just The Way You Are

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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