Yes, toes. I know feet in general kind of gross some people out but think about the toes. What do you know about the toes? Did you know that toes provide us much needed balance? So no matter how may feel about feet in general you might want to be grateful for your toes since they give you balance. :)
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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