You think you're tired NOW?

Nothing is more exhausting than the task that is never started. Gretchen Rubin

(heavy) SIGH. Yep. Really is there anything else to say? Continuing to put off the task that needs to be started ends up exhausting us because we build it up to be this big, monumental thing that is going to suck years of our life away in trying to complete. The reality? It will take upwards of 1 hour. (Unless, in the example of house cleaning, you have completely hoarded out your home. That's a little different.) And 1 hour is on the high end of things. :) No really, I'm speaking from personal experience here.
Yes the thought of the task might be exhausting but never actually completing the task is going to be the thing that eventually wears you down. So just do it. Practice some discipline and get 'er done, whatever it is.

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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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