#ThankfulThursday

I love today's #ThankfulThursday twist! I don't know about *you* but I often forget to be thankful for the things that don't happen. And I think I forget about them because they haven't happened - if that makes sense. I don't want to use actual incidents that happen to other people to prompt me to gratitude that I wasn't the recipient but what other way will remind me to be grateful for the things that don't happen to me? I'm asking for real, any thoughts from anyone on this?

Today can be the reminder we all need, perhaps, to be thankful for the things that haven't happened to us. And then to be the impetus to pray for those who have experienced those things.

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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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