Today my hub brought me my favorite flower, the Gerber daisy. I love them. I love their bright, cheerful colors. Their thick stems, their multiple petals. I just love everything about Gerber daisies! I'm grateful for them because they never fail to bring cheer to my day and a smile. They are such a happy flower and I'm grateful for the reminder of happiness.
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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