Interesting phrases part 30
"Butter someone up" is smearing dairy products on people the best way to flatter and impress them?
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supersnipe · 61-69, M
I can have a guess as to where that one might come from. If you have a cat and you move house, you 'butter it up' - smear butter on its paws - so that it settles in more readily and doesn't go back to the old house. It will assiduously lick the butter from its paws and all the time it is doing this it is settling in to its new surroundings. That's the theory anyway! 😺👅😻