Day 273: Shopping Scores

(For Monday May 26)

I had to go shopping today for some new things. I needed a nice dress for an upcoming bridal shower and I needed some shorts. I hate shopping. I hate trying on clothes. Lanny doesn't much like it when I shop either but it's for different reasons. Haha. So the oldest redhead and I went out. And in the first store I found the dress, yay! At the second store I found shorts, new shoes to go with the new dress, and a few tops, yay yay yay! At the third store I wasn't even really looking and I found some lounge pants and some shirts, bonus yay! AND every bit of it was on sale, no full price shopping done here. Because I hate shopping so much and I just dread it I was super grateful for this day of shopping scores.

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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.

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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