The topic for #WordWednesday is keeping your word. Take today to consider if you are being true to yourself and others by keeping your word. Here are a couple of articles that can help you in your considerations and remind you of the value of your word.
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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