Day 325: Colorado Air

(For Thursday July 17)

A couple of weeks ago a bestie was visiting Colorado. She moved away a few years ago. As we were walking and talking she took a deep breath and commented on how amazing the air was. How is was wonderful to take a deep breath of such crisp and fresh air. How it smelled good. I totally agree but didn't really give a second thought until tonight when I was sitting by an open window and the breeze blew in just right. My eyes were closed at the moment this happened so what my nose picked up confirmed what my friend had commented on a few weeks earlier. It was a delicious moment of breathing in deep fresh, crisp, pleasant Colorado air. And I realized breathing it in how grateful I was to be able to live in this wonderful air! I'm grateful that this air is something that refreshes and revitalizes instead of something that I breath because I have to in order to survive. This Colorado air provides me what I need to survive but it is also a wonderful perk to living here, the fresh mountain air does do this heart good.

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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