This Could Be Our Day

While today I am departing from "Brand New Day" songs you can see I'm still circling the idea/theme of our days. :)
Addison Road is a fave band of mine. I like their sound, I like their lyrics, I just like them!
What do you do with your days? Do you do anything meaningful, anything of lasting value, or do you waste them - just going through the motions? Oh sure I think we all have a day here and there of going through the motions but overall - what do you do with your days? We are given days, and the minutes and moments in them, to invest into. To be part of purpose, to be hands and feet for others, to speak value into a life, there's so much good we could do with our days. Just think. Today is a brand new day (ha! had to throw that in...) and this brand new day could be our day to impart purpose, meaning, value. Think about it. And then do something about it! :)

This Could Be Our Day

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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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