For Sunday, May 27: Today counts!

What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. Unknown

Today counts, whether you think so or not. No matter what you do today you are exchanging life for it. How will you spend it? Watching mindless TV (not pointing any fingers - my hub will tell you I participate in this activity more than he would like me to!)? Slacking off at work? Working diligently? Making positive ripples in your circles of influence? Putting frowns or smiles on the faces of those you get the opportunity to come into contact with? Complaining? Choosing joy?
Today counts.
When you go to bed tonight and your mind naturally reviews your day (as all of our minds do whether we want to review or not) what do you want the review to look like? Feel like? Sound like? What kind of impression will this day of your life leave on you and others? Make it count for you have exchanged a whole day of life for it!

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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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