I woke up this morning and heard rain on the roof. I love the sound of rain. I also like rain, a lot. I like it partly because it isn't snow and I feel like we get more of our needed moisture from rain than snow. I also just like the sound of it, the smell of it, the feel of the air during and after a rainstorm. Rain makes me feel like everything is getting a refresh. It makes me feel like breathing deep and slowing down. I know there are times when rain causes a lot of problems but overall I am grateful for rain.
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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