Sneak Peek at Upcoming Celebrations

SPRING FORWARD. If you live in a state or region that practices Daylight Savings Time then you are springing forward an hour, officially at 2 am, on Sunday March 8.
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Here's a few of the guests invited to the life party this coming week:

Equality for Women is Progress for All: International Women's Day
Naps
Getting over *it*
Packing Lunches
Smoke Out
Jewels
Barbie & Ken
Pi
Genealogies

It's going to be a super fun week!

Grab your party hat and get ready to get your party groove on!

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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