Day 250: Shoe Inserts

I never thought I would be grateful for shoe inserts but it turns out I am! In the past few months they have helped my youngest to correct a pronating problem and recently I decided to give them a go for myself as I have been experiencing major hip pain due to my walking on the treadmill. Before I bite the bullet and go see an Orthopedics Doc I have been trying a variety of lower cost, less invasive things. I think the shoe inserts are part of the solution! Since wearing them in the shoes I walk on the treadmill with my hip pain has diminished significantly. Along with stretching and walking a bit slower I think I have been able to hold off on going to the Doc for a while, maybe "forever". So I am grateful for the shoe inserts because they are a cheaper option than surgery or even PT and because they have helped my hip pain, which was becoming almost unbearable as I could barely walk, fade away. What is something you didn't think you would be grateful for but it turns out you are?

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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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