Day 305: Silver and Gold

(For Friday June 27)

I'm incredibly grateful for silver and gold friendships. Last night I had dinner and real face time with a friend of 18 years. She lives states away so any face time we get is a real treat. She's known me, and chosen to be friends with me, for 18 years. Through my thick and thins - both literally and figuratively, ha. We go months without talking and can pick right back up where we leave off. I'm so grateful for these friendships that choose to go the distance with me. Sometimes my distances are exhausting and to have a friend willing to plod along with me is a true gift. Those are silver and gold friendships. How about you? Do you have silver and gold friendships?

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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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