Day 321: Difficult People

(For Sunday July 13)

Yep. I'm grateful for difficult people...in the big picture of life. I kind of lose the gratefulness for them in the day-to-day of life. But I'm working on that. :) I'm grateful for difficult people because in having to interact with them I have found I can learn many things. I can learn to have a broader perspective, grace, and patience. I usually am reminded through difficult people how unattractive narcissism is. I am really certain God uses difficult people in my life as sandpaper, rubbing off all of my narcissism! And in the day-to-day when I'm sighing deeply over some difficult person in my life God likes to remind me that I am the difficult person in someone's life, just to keep me grounded in reality. :) Have you ever been grateful for that difficult person in your life?

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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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