It's the little things

Never get tired of doing little things for others, sometimes those little things occupy the biggest part of their hearts. Unknown

Bigger isn't always better. (Don't you love how I'm working in a bunch of cliches this week amidst the quotes?!) Acts that seem small and simple and fairly insignificant to me are usually the ones that mean the most to people. I used to shrug my shoulders and think, "what's the big deal?" but as I observed and continued to just do what I do I realized that people just want to be acknowledged, valued, noticed. And it almost always takes just the little things to accomplish that. It doesn't need to be big and grandiose and spectacular. But it does need to be sincere, genuine, and preferably heartfelt. Those kinds of things usually come in the smallest of ways yet have maximum impact.

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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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