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Like clockwork Monday comes around every seven days. We have short memories - it seems Tuesday through Sunday makes us forget about Monday. And when it comes back around we are so surprised...and usually dismayed! HA! Manic is usually a word that conveys a negative emotion or behavior BUT the dictionary doesn't put it that way. It talks about excitement and energy. Now that seems a better way to start off a Monday, don't you think?
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.
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.
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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