Monday Monday Monday

So my friend Jason sometimes plays this song on repeat, playing it over and over. There's a lot of things you can take from this song. I'm gonna go the route of the actual day of Monday. Poor Monday, it gets such a bad rap!
In the song they sing, "Damn* your mood swings..." hahahahaha! Isn't that just like a Monday? It takes on many moods throughout the day. And mood swings can be exhausting. The thing about them is we are never observers of mood swings, we seem to always be active participants in some way!
So happy Monday, here's to the least amount of mood swings as possible! :)

Monday Monday Monday

*So sorry for the possible offense of that word or the fact that in the video the monkey is, well, flipping off what I assume to be the day Monday.

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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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