Walk Like An Egyptian

Theme Week! :)
This week I decided to feature Girl Bands from back in my day. So get ready for a blast from the past! :)

Back in the day boy did I love me some Bangles. Girl Bands were a rarity and they shot up on the charts for songs like Manic Monday and today's song, Walk Like An Egyptian. Really when I listen to this song as an adult I just laugh. What the heck? Why would you sing a song about walking like an Egyptian?!? My youngest redhead likes this song because she is fascinated by different cultures and one of them is Egyptians. So she thinks this song is great because of that! Ha!
So happy Monday, walk on people! :)

Walk Like An Egyptian

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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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