Day 295: Summer Schedules

Summer schedules are a bit of a two-edged sword for me but I'm choosing to focus on the gratitude part. :) What I love about summer schedules (i.e. no school mornings to rush off to, longer light in the days) is the time I have in the mornings to breathe. I still choose to get up earlier than most think is normal but I do so, in part, to give myself some much needed time to just be in the still and the quiet of the day before all the noise begins. I'm so grateful that for a couple of months out of each year I get the chance to do this.

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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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