You can't ride the fence

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. Desmond Tutu

No fence riding allowed. To say you are in the middle and don't want to get involved involves you on the side of the oppressor. Choosing indifference means you have chosen oppression. When it comes to situations of injustice there are so many levels you can jump in on that there is no excuse for neutrality. Don't let the injustice scare you, don't let it make you so uncomfortable that you join sides with the oppressors unknowingly. Be brave enough to educate yourself, be brave enough to jump in on some level of assistance. Be brave enough to get off the fence.

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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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