Day 17: The Library

I love the Library. It's one of my happy places. The smell of books is equal to the smell of my favorite flower in my world. All those books stored in one place just waiting for someone like me to pick them up and enjoy, or not, their contents. When I put a book on hold and then the Library emails me to let me know it's ready for pick up? I do a little happy dance. I love the Library. I am also extremely grateful for the Library as it is FREE! Free books! Free books that I don't have to pay anything for (unless I lose them, which I never do.) I am grateful for however the system works that gives me, and anyone else, the opportunity to read books for fun, for personal growth, for learning, etc. That's another reason I am grateful for the Library, it doesn't close its doors to anyone. It is open and available to all. If you don't have a Library card for your local Library I highly recommend getting one and enjoying what they have to offer.

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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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