I love a good salad bar. And I'm actually grateful for them too because I couldn't afford to keep all the things I think make a good salad in my home. Either the ingredients would go bad before I could consume them all or they are just too expensive to have on hand. But a good salad bar in a decent restaurant is awesome because I can afford to have a good, no make that great, salad and I don't have to do the prep either! It's a win-win-win for me!
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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