#ShoutOutSaturday

My #ShoutOutSaturday is dedicated to my three's and twelve's. This group of people have gone the distance with me. And when I say distance I mean down to the depths of my life - the rock bottom. And it is dank, cold, and icky down there. Yet these people stayed down there with me and helped me climb up and out back into the light. I've got quality people in my life, a public shoutout is the least I could do.

I loved this post and some of the reasons our besties deserve a shout out.

A Shout Out To Best Friends

Who has been to the rock bottom of your life with you and gone the distance? Give them a shout out of love and gratitude today!

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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