Everyday Superhero

We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up...discovering we have the strength to stare it down. Eleanor Roosevelt

What's a hero? Anyone who has the courage and fortitude to stare at what is seeking to intimidate and looking it up and down and then tackling it. It doesn't matter what the thing is because a hero is one who conquers. Do not feel the pressure to conquer overnight, it will take time. The best heroes are ones who allow the process to happen and allow complete victory. Rush it and you'll miss important steps. Rush it and you'll think you don't have what it takes to take it down. But you do, you have what it takes. And I do, I have what it takes. Let us become heroes because we are conquering those things and people in our lives that seek to intimidate.

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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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