Day 197: Girls Night

Sometimes you just need a girls night you know? (Okay not if you are a guy but you know what I'm saying.) And sometimes you need it without even knowing that you do! I had girls night with a couple of friends tonight and it was low key and just good to sit at a table, eat some amazing chocolate silk pie, and drink some really delicious Lambic beers (fruit beer - the dangerous kind of beer because it doesn't taste like beer so you forget you are drinking it! You have to be pretty careful with consumption. *grin*). Lambic was new to me just tonight as I'm not a beer drinker, but then again Lambic isn't your normal beer. Anywho, back on track - girls night. I'm grateful for the girls nights I get, or the girls afternoons I get (which I prefer as I'm more alert and engaged usually). Us girls need each other. We were created for connection and relationship and so I'm grateful when an opportunity arises to do so.

Comments

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.

Search This Blog