#SaturdaySecrets

Do you have a secret? Something that you really want, maybe even need, to share but don't feel safe doing so with anyone in your life? Well, there's a way to share it - get it off your chest so to speak - and remain anonymous. Isn't that great news? In fact, you aren't limited to just one secret to unburden - you can unburden yourself as much as you need to. Just write your secret on a postcard - yes, snail mail is the way this is happening - and send it to: PostSecret/13345 Copper Ridge Road/Germantown, MD/20874

Wondering what happens to the secrets you share? Go here, postsecret.com PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard. Your secrets, posted, every Sunday. But anonymous! Why publish them? I think reading other people's secrets could provide perspective toward your own. Here are some examples of secrets that other people have - it's nice to know you aren't alone isn't it?

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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.

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.

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