Day 338: Sister Time

(For Wednesday July 30)

Today I am grateful for sister time. As my sister-in-loves and I walk NYC streets to our destinations we talk about life, as we sit next to one another getting our nails and toes did we talk about life, as we raise glasses in a toast to celebrating relationships we grow closer. I was blessed with a lot of sister time today as we spent the afternoon and evening celebrating my one sister-in-loves upcoming marriage to my brother. I am so grateful for these sisters I have because my brothers are wise men who have picked good women to be part of our family. I love them so very much!

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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