Day 18: Dedicated Dad

I'm grateful for my husband, who is a dedicated Dad. He said something to me tonight that shows the depths of his dedication to our children and to being present in their lives. He said that right now things are all about them, he didn't have parents who paid attention to him while growing up, who were available to him, etc and he wants to be available to our girls and pay attention to them so they know he cares and that he loves them and is invested in their lives. How grateful I am for a man who wants to be invested in the lives of his children and is. It already has and will continue to make all the difference for them.

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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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