Day 55: Collisions

No, not those kind of collisions. (That would take some serious sugar to make lemonade from that kind of collision!) I'm grateful for the collision between my world and the world of others. Like when my first world life collides with that of the third world life I have been honored to travel to. The collision of those two worlds have literally changed my life. I don't have the adequate words to describe my gratefulness for that collision. Or the collision of God's grace with my weakness. That has also been a life changing event. What kind of collisions have happened in your life that you are grateful for?

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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.

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.

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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