I have some bomb diggity friends. I have one friend, in particular, who prays for me every month on the date of my birthday. I get a text every month with a prayer for me. I can't tell you how many times the prayer has spoken exactly to something I am experiencing at that time. It happened again this month, I am so grateful. Today at work I had a friend quietly and sweetly let me know she was praying for me, for a situation that's going on in my life. I'm so grateful. I'm so grateful for the prayers of friends, known and unknown to me, that lift my spirit. I hope *you* have friends in your life that lift your spirit. If you do, have you thanked them recently?
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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