There Is A Balm In Gilead

Oh there is a balm in Gilead to heal the sickened and make whole and the balm is Jesus. For whatever may ail you Jesus is the cure. I don't say that lightly or flippantly. I have seen Jesus be the cure. I have seen ailments of body, spirit, and soul be touched and healed by the only one who could do it. There is a balm and he is for all of us, we just need to call out to him.

There Is A Balm In Gilead (Deborah Liv Johnson)
There Is A Balm In Gilead (Mahalia Jackson)

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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.

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.

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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