Day 335: Cooking for Loved Ones

I love cooking for people I love. I love bringing a smile to their taste buds and faces. I love making them something that I know they love and enjoy. I'm grateful for the opportunity to serve the people I love in this way. I'm grateful that I have so many people in my life to cook for and love in this way. Tonight a bestie who has been living overseas came to our house for dinner and face time. She loves a dish I make so it was a no brainer to cook that up for her. And send a bunch of it home with her! It's a recipe that has ingredients a bit hard to come by in her country of residence these days so I wanted to make sure she and her taste buds were happy. It truly makes my heart overflow with gratitude to cook tasty food for people.

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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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