#TimeTravelTuesday

Many times when I think of time travel I think of Bill and Ted.

I loved their wacky time travel adventure in part because I also love history and all the historical characters (accurate or not) that they involved were fun to watch. So I think today I will scout out Bill and Ted and their adventure to watch in honor of the idea and possibilities of time travel.

If you could go back in time and meet anyone from history who would you want to meet and why?

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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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