I'm super grateful for garages, you know those things designed to store our cars in and not other belongings. :) Okay, well Lanny and I actually use our garage for the purpose it was intended, the cars. And boy, on days like today - and apparently the rest of this week - I am super glad for our garage. I am very grateful I am not outside in sub zero temps scraping off the car so I can try and start it and drive it. (It's illegal in our state to pre-warm your vehicle...but...) When the winds is blowing, the snow is flying, the rain is falling I am grateful for our garage.
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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