Day 337: Home away from Home

(For Tuesday July 29)

We traveled to NYC today to begin a week full of celebrating the wedding and marriage of my brother, Brad. When we landed tonight we cabbed to a new-to-us apartment, my sister-in-love's, on the Upper West Side. We are used to heading to the Upper East Side to my other brother's place but this trip we are filling up all the spaces! We walked into this new-to-us space and I felt at home. I felt at home because it was a space infused by people I love, people I have the honor of calling family. It made me grateful that no matter where I am in this world when my family is with me that place is like a home away from home. My family is the foundation of any home in any place.

Comments

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.

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.

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