I'm grateful for lunch dates with my Mama, my friends, my hub. The lunch dates give me these moments of connection with people I love and care about. It helps maintain my connections, it gives my heart a respite from my work days and anything that might be going on there. It reminds me of how many wonderful people I have in my life. I had a lunch date with my Mama today and I love just being with her, chatting about this and that, making plans for whatever. I love sneaking these moments with people my heart connects to.
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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