Put the wrinkle cream down!

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. Victor Hugo

Ever seen a face lined with laugh lines? Ever seen one with zero laugh lines? Which soul is freer and more at peace? There is a proverb that compliments today's quote well - A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. It is easy to tell who has a cheerful heart (generally with exception to the bad day here and there) and who lives with a miserable heart. Their face tells the world where they stand. I don't know about you but I'd rather have laugh lines than no lines when it comes to the end of my life.

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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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