I'm not sure that there are better ways to really kick off your day than to sit in a room and listen to your child in the next room pick out on the piano "Music of the Night" from Phantom of the Opera and sing along with it perfectly. Her piano playing is natural and instinctual and her voice, well if you've heard it then you know, it is sublime. I sat in the next room this morning and listened to this gifted child of mine playing and singing this incredibly difficult piece of music and I cried. It was so beautiful tears filled my eyes and once again awe filled me. I'm grateful for her gift that blesses us and others and for the gift she is.
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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