Today was full of sunshine. Not a cloud in my part of the Colorado sky. I went out at lunch to run an errand and opened up the sunroof on my car and let the sun shine in. It was incredible. In fact, so incredible that I was internally kicking and screaming as I dragged myself back inside for the rest of the workday. :) Here in Colorado we are blessed with a lot of sunshine days, even when it's only 30 degrees. I am so grateful for our beautiful sunshine days. They warm my 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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