Sneak Peek at Upcoming Celebrations

Here's what is coming up this next week in life:

Confession
Brutus Day
Everything You Think is Wrong Day
Ides of March
Dumbstruck Day
Lips Appreciation
St. Patrick's Day
Celebrating Awkward Moments
Abducting Aliens
Storytelling
Burning Snowmen (I think this is the perfect holiday for Boston residents to celebrate this year!)
Mister Rogers and the Neighborhood
Ravioli
Fragrances
French Bread
Spotlighting Single Parents
Bringing awareness to Down Syndrome

And so much more! It's going to be a great week of celebrating all life has to offer!

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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