Today, and yesterday as well, I found myself grateful for laughter. I needed a "laugh break" and got it! Stop and think for a minute about laughter. It's GOOD for you, it revives you, it releases tension and pressure. Think about the people you know who don't laugh. Kinda hard to be around them right? They make people miserable, they suck the joy out of people like a Hoover vacuum. I'm so grateful for laughter that I want others to get their "laugh breaks" in. Laughter, like gratefulness, is what does a heart good.
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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