Day 279: Dance Parties

(For Sunday June 1)

My nephew loves the song Best Song Ever from 1D, LOVES it. He also loves Roar by Katie Perry. My niece loves Happy by Pharrell, LOVES it. In fact, we were waiting for the train last night and we passed a sign with a picture of Pharrell on it and she started singing Happy. (She's 18 months old!) These kiddos of ours have great taste in music. This afternoon Big Boy E was feeling a little restless and asked to watch something so his Daddy, my brother, put on the 3 videos for these three favorite songs and all the kids and adults in the room had a little dance party. It was so.much.fun! Oh I am so grateful for these moments with my E2.

And just in case you don't know the songs I speak of...

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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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