Day 291: Moonlight

It's a full moon tonight. I love the moonlight. The wash it gives the earth, it's peaceful projection. Generally when there are full moons people blame wacky behavior and labor pains on it - something to do with the lunar cycle but full moons calm me down. I could sit and stare at it for hours (if I could stay awake). Something about it helps me reflect and breathe a little deeper. So given those reasons I would say it is 100% accurate to say that I am grateful for the moonlight.

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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.

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.

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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