Day 288: Shared Experiences

(For Tuesday June 10)

Tonight at cook group we spent a lot of it laughing about our shared experiences in pregnancy, labor, and motherhood. I'm so grateful for people that I have shared experiences with - be it parenting or traveling or reading a book or whatever. It eases a particular kind of loneliness when I remember that there are others who have experienced similar things. Having a shared experience builds a bridge for relationship to happen on some level - even if the shared experience wasn't great. I think back on all the shared experiences I have had and I am so grateful that I could contact a number of people today and say, "Hey remember when..." and we would instantly be connected again in some way.

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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