Today I'm thinking about corners. And I'm grateful for the corners God exposes in my life and then asks me to share with others. What corners do you have that you can share because of your gratefulness for them in your own life? Click here to read more about corners.
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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