Day 227: Instructions

I'm grateful for instructions because without them I would be at a loss about a whole bunch of things! Instructions have been a lifesaver when assembling furniture, neither the hub or I have the instincts to put things together without some instructions. Instructions have been super helpful when installing electronic things. Recipes are instructions and I'm not creative enough to just cook, I need a recipe and then can rock it. Pretty much my life is surrounded by instructions and I'm so grateful! The most important instructions in my life, however, are those of God's word. Without his instructions I am at a complete loss. Floundering is an understatement if his instructions weren't part of my life and available to give me direction and foundation. His instructions in the Old Testament that shaped the further instructions in the New Testament give me abundant life. (Btw, did you know that the word "law" for the Torah and OT passages is a bad translation? The more accurate translation is "instructions". Kinda changes things when that word is the one used to read the OT, you might want to try it!) What kind of instructions have you been grateful for?

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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