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?
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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