Sneak Peek at Upcoming Celebrations

The first few days of April gave us a quite a life party, here's a few of the celebrations coming up this next week:

One Day Without Shoes: Can you go a day without shoes, no matter what the terrain or weather? There are people in the world who don't have a choice.
Sorry Charlie: Who is Charlie and why are we apologizing to him?!
Plan Your Epitaph: Have you ever thought about what you want said about you when you pass on?
New Beer's Eve
Bookmobile: Portable Libraries!
Name Yourself: What would you have named yourself?
Eight Track Tapes
Barbershop Quartets
Parkinson's Disease Awareness

And there is so much more! Join us this week as we celebrate life with all its quirks and fun!

Comments

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.

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.

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