#ThankfulThursday

C'mon, you know how you can be. *wink*

I know how I can be...grumpy, complicated, confusing. I go radio silent more often than is probably healthy. I am also a great hugger and baker. But the fact is, I feel pretty fortunate that - despite my desire to live the hermit life - I have people in my life who have decided to stick around when they have the choice to leave me.

So today I'm going to reach out to people I know have made a choice to stick around and thank them. They are the true ones. The ones who don't get going when the going gets tough. I really am incredibly thankful for those people.

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.

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.

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.

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