Day 37: Medical Profession

Today a bestie gets her hip replaced. My Dad had that done years ago and it is quite the operation. I am super grateful for people who have gone through the educational system to gain the knowledge and skill to perform these kinds of surgeries plus so many other things. My Mom is a retired nurse and she has saved my family a lot of money in co-pays over the years with what she knows. She is my first phone call before a Doctor's office. I am grateful for her knowledge. I have a terrific "lady" Doctor, he is 'da bomb. (He is so incredible that I would pay out of pocket to see him, seriously he's that amazing.) I am so grateful that he felt a prompt in his spirit and a call on his life to see to the health and wellness of women and their unborn children. People in the medical profession are used by the Great Physician to heal and bring health and I am grateful for them every day.

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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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