Sneak Peek at Upcoming Celebrations

Check out a few of the celebrations coming up this week:

Molasses Bars
Opera
Clean out your computer
Stop bullying
Plimsoll
Don’t cry over spilled milk
Peppermint Patty
Lost penny day
Get a different name
Radio
Madly in love with me
Organ Donor Day

And this week is also highlighting one of my favorites things...

Random Acts of Kindness!

It's RAK week so get out there and extend kindness, you won't believe the difference it can and will make!

Comments

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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