If Today Was Your Last Day

I have a confession. I don't listen to Nickelback. I have actually never heard one of their songs. Never, that is, until I Googled this week's theme and they popped up in it. I listened to the song, read the lyrics and they made the cut. :) Now, I know it's probably like music blasphemy or something to have never listened to Nickelback but deal with it. Ha!
So this song is EXACTLY what I was looking for. It's perfect. It asks what would you do if today was your last - would you donate your last dime? Forgive? Make sure people in your life know you love them? Live every moment to its fullest? Heal a broken heart? Look at yesterday without regret? The truth is that today could be your last day and it could be mine. We aren't promised tomorrow. So what will you do with the moments life hands you today?

If Today Was Your Last 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.

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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