Day 278: Celebrations

(For Saturday May 31)

Today we celebrated the upcoming marriage of my youngest brother to his lovely fiancée and my soon to be sister-in-love, Adele. Her Aunt threw her a lovely bridal shower and we had a great time. I was so joy filled to be there (thanks Daddy!) and so glad to be able to meet her parents and brother and spend time with them at their home after the bridal shower. To celebrate Brad and Adele today and in 2 months when they married makes me so grateful for my relationship with him and the rest of our family. To be happy to celebrate this next step in his life and Adele's in a true pleasure and honor. I am grateful for the celebrations life gives me opportunity to participate in.

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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