Day 208: The "Village People"

No, not *those* Village People - haha!
I'm talking about the people in our lives that help us out when we are in a bind or when we have a need and they have the knowledge to fix it, etc and we don't. For example, the hub has a group of guys at work that are certified mechanics so we know we can go to them first with car issues and potentially save ourselves a lot of money. The hub isn't a handyman so we have had "village people" help us hang a microwave, fix fences, work on our hot water heater, etc. I'm grateful for all the people in our lives that we know and are willing to come alongside of us in the places where we have weaknesses and help us out. The saying it takes a village doesn't apply to just raising kids I'm thinking.

Comments

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.

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.

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