Day 271: 86400 seconds

(For Saturday May 24)

Every day we get 86400 seconds. If you think about it that is a lot of opportunities to express gratefulness and find things and people to be grateful for. I'm grateful for the 86400 seconds each day that my heart beats, my lungs work to provide me oxygen, my nerve endings send signals, my brain waves provide information, etc. There are a myriad of other reasons to be grateful for the 86400 seconds of life you and I get each day. What are some of the reasons you are grateful for 86400 seconds each day?

Comments

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.

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.

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