Day 339: Roasts and Toasts

(For Thursday July 31)

Tonight we celebrated my brother, Brad, and his beloved, Adele, as they will be married tomorrow. At the incredibly fun and enjoyable rehearsal dinner the floor was opened up to anyone who wanted to speak to them. A mix of roasts and toasts followed and all were so wonderful, enjoyable, amazing - yes, even the roasts! :) To hear other people speak so highly of my brother, the boy I watched enter this world and grow up, touched me and really moved me. I'm so incredibly proud of him, so amazed by the man he's grown up into, so honored to walk through this life as his sister. I was so grateful to hear of the love so many have for both Brad and Adele. It moved me in deep ways.

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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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