Day 365: Windshield Wipers

Well here we are. Day 365. I'll talk more tomorrow about the year as a whole but whoa baby, that was quite the 365. :)

So for today, the final day, I was most grateful for windshield wipers. I mean think about it! What would we do without them? amiright? Today it was raining quite a bit and it just hit me, how grateful I was for windshield wipers. I guess without them we couldn't drive our vehicles in any sort of wet weather. So I'm grateful for them because in this day and age ain't nobody got time to wait around for dry weather! And I'm always grateful for them when they work well. If I have bad wipers then I notice, good wipers that get their job done without much notice from me I am appreciative of. Right now I have good wipers but today I did notice them and give them their due credit. Ha!

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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