Day 283: Photo Albums

(For Thursday June 5)

With the influx of technology and the digital age, photo albums are kind of passé but I love them. And looking through them makes me grateful. They take me back to people and times that hold good memories and laughs. I am old-school and I love turning a photo album page, of placing pictures in an album, of pulling it out and taking my time looking through it. Assembling a photo book gives me time and space to really look at the pictures and reflect on how grateful I am for the people and experiences the pictures capture.

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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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