#ThirstyThursday

My pick for #ThirstyThursday is soda - specifically Boylan's Craft Sodas. I was introduced to this brand at Modern Market (delish). There's some great craft sodas out there - really good flavors and such but there is something different about Boylan's, at least in my opinion.

My favorite flavor is the Creme Soda. OH. MY. GOODNESS. I'm probably going to have to make sure that hits my taste buds at some point today.

Do you have a favorite craft soda?

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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.

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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