I love my electric blanket. I am very grateful for it. Here's my routine: I turn it on the highest setting that it goes and preheat my side of the bed. When I come to bed I turn it down to low and climb in. The sheets are warm and I am cozy. I am so very grateful for my electric blanket. Lanny? Not so much. :)
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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