Day 184: The Holy Spirit

Today I was listening to a favorite artist of mine, Melanie Penn, who happens to sing a favorite song of mine, Ordinary Day. (Video below) I love the song because it's about the Holy Spirit but you don't quite know that at first listen. Anyway, I was listening to the song this morning and reflecting on the Holy Spirit and realizing how grateful I am for him in my life. I am grateful for the guidance, the discernment, the warning the Holy Spirit provides me. I have relied on him to be my internal compass in my life and have yet to be directed wrong when I have heeded his direction. I love Penn's description of the Holy Spirit as he dances throughout our days and makes his presence known in a "million" different ways. It reminds me to be more aware of his presence in my days because he is there.

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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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