Day 236: The promise of "yes"

Today he asked her to marry him and she said yes. We gathered and yelled "surprise" when they walked through the door and raised our glasses in celebration to this exciting step my friends have taken. I'm grateful for the promise of the "yes". It's a yes to commitment, a yes to the thick and thin, a yes to growing as an individual and a couple, a yes to the possibilities of family, a yes to being a covenant relationship, a yes that is bursting with the easy and the hard and the in between of life, a yes to living that life together. I'm grateful for the promise of yes and the example it can and does set for others.

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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.

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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