Day 257: Veggie Tales

Some days you just need to watch some Veggie Tales. Bob and Larry have a way of putting things into perspective. Today in our home church we were talking about casting lots and then that made me think of Jonah which in turn made me think of Veggie Tales Jonah so I had to watch it. Today wasn't the first day in recent months that I felt like a little Veggie Tales would do me some good. Maybe it would do you some good too?

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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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