Day 170: Simple Things

I'm grateful for the little, simple things that happen daily that when added together stir up that grateful feeling - you know what I'm talking about it? For example, lots of little things happen throughout my days (and yours too) that we don't generally take note of, we kind of just let them pass by without acknowledging them. But at the end of the day if any reflection happens usually all those little things add up and prompt this feeling of gratitude that can't really be described or defined. Today the simple thing that stirred it up for me was getting my car washed. I know right? Sounds so silly and simple! But it made a world of difference to me and stirred me up to be grateful. I'm telling you, it's the simple things that go unnoticed.

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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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