Day 65: The Gift of Administration

Okay so today's Gratitude Attitude might be a little self-indulgent but I am grateful for the gift of administration! I'm grateful I have it and I'm grateful others do as well. While other people shudder at the thought of having to engage in admin type tasks and duties, I love it! I thrive in it. I love being behind the scenes and relieving someone who isn't jazzed about admin and feels weighed down and held back by it of it. I love being able to take those things off someones plate so they are free to do what they love to do and are best at. It truly makes me feel grateful for this gift I possess. How about you? What gift do you possess that makes you grateful?

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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.

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.

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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