Day 164: Passports

I was thinking today about the little bit of traveling I have been fortunate enough to do and how it wouldn't have as easy (or possible) without a passport. I'm grateful for my passport! I'm grateful that this little blue book that has a picture of me and my info tells other people in other countries that I am okay to pass in and out of their country. I'm grateful that this little blue book is a record of the places I have been blessed to visit thus far. I'm grateful that my passport would gain me security and refuge, should I ever need it, when traveling out of country at the US Embassy. And I'm grateful that my passport has represented to me and expanding world view for as I travel different places and experience different cultures I expand.

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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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