Day 230: Flavored Creamers

I drink my coffee with regular half & half. But sometimes a girl just needs a little special flavor, you know? Today I was at the store and my eye caught the french vanilla creamer. And I decided to splurge and get myself a little flavor for my coffee. Why am I grateful for this? One, because I have the option of it. Two, because my taste buds like it. And three, because it is an affordable way to get a little special flavor every now and then. And like I said at the beginning, sometimes you just need a little something extra. :)

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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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