Day 306: Body Pillow

(For Saturday June 28)

How it has taken me to day 306 to verbalize this is beyond me. I LOVE, and am extremely grateful for, my body pillow. My love affair with it began in 1997 when I was pregnant and getting super uncomfortable. We heard a body pillow may help, it did much to my husband's regret 16 years later - ha! Now it's hard for me to be without one. When I travel and can't take it with me I try to recreate it with multiple pillows but it just isn't the same. If I can travel with it I do and I have no shame hauling that pillow around with me! It has truly helped me sleep better even if my husband believes it has replaced him. He calls it "Mr. Impostor". Whatever, all I know is I am very grateful for it. *grin*

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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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