Day 201: Visual Books

I could have just said movies that were made because of books. But I like the idea of "visual books" better. ;) Tonight I watched for the first time Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone after having read the book last month for the first time. And while I liked the book better than the movie I still appreciate having the movie to give me some visual of the what I read. I loved seeing The Help after reading the book. I have loved watching Agatha Christie books come to be in movie form, etc. You get the idea. I'm a very visual person and to see an interpretation of the characters and the story line come to to life (even if I don't exactly agree with the interpretation) is fun and something I am actually grateful for.

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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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