For Saturday, June 16: Possibilities

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says "I'm possible"! Audrey Hepburn

I never saw it before seeing this quote by Hepburn. We need to be stronger and believe more than surface circumstances may dictate. Deep down within us we have what it takes to make things possible. I love that this look upon a word that bears such negative connotation turns it around and makes it a positive. That's a good way to live life I'd say - take the seemingly negative and expose it to the light of positives.

Comments

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.

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.

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