I am grateful for hot tea. It does something for my soul even when I'm not really paying attention to the state of my soul. Something about tea calms me, soothes me, brings peace. That may seem silly to you but it's true for me. I'm also grateful that it is an affordable way to take care of myself. What's something that helps you settle down in your soul?
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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