Day 312: Travel Mugs

(For Friday July 4)

Even though it may seem a given that I express gratitude for freedom today, I'm not going to. Because I already did earlier in this 365. :)
So today I am expressing gratefulness for travel mugs. Some of my good friends know this - I have a bit of a obsession with mugs, travel and regular. One friend, with my hub's endorsement, even limited me to only owning 5 mugs at one time. So if a new one came in, one had to go out. I may or may not be keeping to that rule. *wink* But anyway, I am grateful for travel mugs because I can take my yummy hot drinks with me wherever I am headed. And sometimes I have a hot/warm drink with me as a comfort blanket of sorts. Sometimes it's not for the drink so much as it is for the comfort of holding something warm. But sometimes it is most definitely for the drink - usually caffeinated. :)

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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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