For #TriviaTuesday invite others to join in! Host a lunchtime trivia game or an evening trivia party and exercise your brains together. Here's a couple of ideas to jumpstart your brain on hosting your own trivia get together. Have fun!
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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