Day 147: Parenting

While I stand by my oft-uttered statement, "Parenting is not for the faint of heart" and while I have written about it before (click here), I AM grateful for the opportunity and the responsibility of parenting. It is a role in my life that has stretched me, works to sanctify me, humbles me, fulfills me, and has taught me a lot about myself and about relationships in general. I am grateful for the successes and for the mistakes I make. I'm grateful that I was chosen to be a Mom to two redheaded girls who make my husband and I feel like we won the parent lottery.

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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.

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.

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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