Sneak Peek at Upcoming Celebrations

April is a huge life party month! So many celebrations and such a diverse mix of guests. Here's a preview of a few coming up this next week:

Do you have a wild side? Take a walk with it!
Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
Scrabble, one of the best games ever!
Take a Wild Guess
Interested in volunteering but short on time?
Only if it's okay with your HR department, wear your pajamas to work!
Blah Blah Blah
The fascinating life of DNA
Are you a Juggler? How many balls can you keep in the air?

Remember, sometimes the day isn't really about what it seems. Join us celebrating life this week!

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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