Hospice Care is a powerful, profound, and beautiful service to those who are passing from this life and their families who stand by and watch with sadness and sometimes confusion. I am a huge advocate for hospice care. I am grateful for it. My family has benefited directly from hospice care for my Grandma and my lifelong best friend had hospice care until she breathed her last as well. Hospice care workers are not nurses, not doctors, they are caretakers. They provide the comfort of companionship both to the bedridden and to their families. They speak gently and softly. They hold the hands of the sick. Hospice care allows the dying to maintain dignity and value, it allows for family and friends to be with their loved one in comfortable surroundings, it gets the magnitude of life. I'm so, so grateful for those dedicated to people in this particular way.
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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