Today I'm grateful for the multiple layers of grace. Grace shows up in different ways for different people and at different times. I've been thinking a lot about grace lately. How I extend it, how I receive it, how it shows up in my day when I didn't even know I needed it, how God gifts us with it. How have you seen grace in your life recently?
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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