I happen to have pretty awesome Grandparents and I'm very blessed to have three of the four still living. My maternal grandma passed away in 2007. You can read about her here. My grandparents have always done what they could to stay involved. They traveled to us, brought us to them, sent cards, etc. And I love that my children, their great-grandchildren, are getting to know them and have relationship with them as well. It absolutely prompts me to gratitude for my grandparents and what they have meant to me and what they now mean to my children as well.
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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