#ThirstyThursday

One of my favorite hot drinks is my #ThirstyThursday pick. It goes by a couple of names - Earl Grey Latte or, I believe this is the more commonly known name, London Fog. A few years back London Fog showed up on a Starbucks menu for a brief time and I fell I love with it. And I figured out I could make it myself at home. Now it wasn't as good as the ones I could get at Starbucks or other coffee/tea places but it was good enough. It's not as good at my house because I am way too lazy to steam milk - I just pour in a good dollop of half & half and call it good. It's Earl Grey tea, steamed milk, and vanilla syrup. Oh my word. If you love Earl Grey you will love this - you can taste the lavender and the bergamot - it's incredible. When I drink it I feel soothed.

Do you have a favorite hot drink?

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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