Sneak Peek at Upcoming Celebrations

April is a huge life month, so much is celebrated, observed, highlighted. Here's a sneak peek of some of what life celebrates and observes this coming week:

Bicycles?
Hanging Out
Doppelgangers
Volunteers
Admins
Talk Like Shakespeare
Take a Chance
How's your sniffer?
Take a bite back at malaria
East Meets West

And that's just some of the fun waiting for us this week! Are you ready to celebrate this life?!

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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