Sneak Peek at Upcoming Celebrations

Not only do we have some great life celebrations this week but we also end March and enter into April, life is really enjoying itself! Here's a look a just a few of the things we are celebrating/observing this week:

Mom and Pop Business Owners
Niagara Falls Runs Dry...what?!
I am in Control...or are you?
Crayola Crayons changed children's art forever
See ya March, hello APRIL!
International Tatting - wait, a day about tattoos? Yes? No?
Day of Hope
Have you ever thought about the produce managers?
Peanut Butter and Jelly
Autism Awareness
Passover & Good Friday
This needs no explanations if you are a Whovian - Fish Fingers and Custard
Pillow Fight!
Are you getting enough Vitamin C?
Tell a Lie, but why?

And there is so much more to explore with life this week! It's going to be great fun!

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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