Day 239: Big Picture

I was reminded today of the big picture. It's so easy to forget about it and lose sight of it. And sometimes it is only through life experience that we remember to take into account the big picture. I'm grateful there is a bigger picture. I'm grateful for the hope that the bigger picture can provide. It gives hope because it reminds us that the place where we feel stuck is only a small, perhaps minute, part of the picture that is our life. As I learn to remember the bigger picture of life I have a responsibility to remind others to look for it in their own lives as well and be a messenger of hope.

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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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