Sneak Peek at Upcoming Celebrations

This upcoming week has some weird and fun life celebrations!
Things like...

Candlemas
Singles Awareness
Grouchy People
The Human Spirit
Wine
Single-Tasking
Hoodie Hoo
Sticky Buns

and so much more! Don't miss out, make sure to check in everyday to see what life is celebrating and how you can join in!

I'm not gonna lie, the day we highlight wine could be my favorite day in this upcoming week - ha!

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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