Day 330: Local Businesses

(For Tuesday July 22)

In the past few years I have really come to be grateful for the local businesses in my town. And I do my best to try and shop with them rather than the "big box" stores. I'm grateful for their entrepreneurial spirit, for their desire to provide quality product at a reasonable cost and in many cases with a social justice mindset. Not too mention supporting my local businesses keep my local economy healthy. I'm grateful I have the option of local businesses to shop at. What about you? Do you support your local businesses?

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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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