Day 307: Milestones

(For Sunday June 29)

I am personally grateful for milestones - all of them - birthdays, anniversaries, etc. There are some milestones that everyone has in common (turning an age that ushers in a new decade, turning 21 and being legal for certain things, etc) but then there are the milestones that each of us have that may be unique to us or to our immediate family and nobody else would really "get." I'm grateful for the common and unique milestones in my life and in the life of those I love. I use them as a moment of reflection, I use them to look back at what is ending on that milestone and see how God walked me through and what he did in my life. I use them to look forward to what is beginning on that milestone and with anticipation I dedicate my days and moments to the same God who walked with me through what just ended. How do you feel about milestones?

Comments

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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