Day 130: Sense of Touch

I'm grateful today for the sense of touch. For the nerve receptors that convey to us pain or pleasure. I am always heartbroken to hear of people who have tactile impairments. Sense of touch isn't just important for the hugging and the pleasurable things but it also serves as a warning to us in regards to pain (heat/burning, etc). Just like our other senses, we don't think too much about touch until we lose it or it becomes damaged somehow. How about you? How often have you thought about touch and been grateful you have it?

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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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