When my daughter was little, she and I used to play some silly kissing games. We tried forehead kiss, nose kiss, cheek kiss, chin kiss, hair kiss, ear kiss, eye kiss, and of course, lip kiss too. The hardest one was eye kiss. Every time, we had to try a few times to get it just right. But we both had a lot of fun doing that. We often laughed so hard when we failed.
Some time later, I saw a Children's picture book, Butterfly Kisses. I realized the eye kiss we did is also called butterfly kiss.
Definition of butterfly kiss
-- the act or an instance of fluttering one's eyelashes against another person's skin
"… I've invented a new way of kissing. You do it with your eye-lashes." "I've known that for years. It's called a butterfly kiss."
— Evelyn Waugh
Studies suggest that the butterfly kiss occurs between people either who are madly in love or those who are crazy about each other.
— Times Now News
If you take so much trouble to butterfly kiss someone, it can only mean that person means a lot to you. That makes sense, right? :) And it could also mean that you're quite silly, or both, like me and my little darling, haha.
And further more, I learned that this book was actually based on the lyrics of a song: Butterfly Kisses, by Bob Carlisle.
It's a sweet song about the loving relationship between a dad and his little girl.
Butterfly Kisses
There's two things I know for sure:
She was sent here from heaven and she's daddy's little girl.
As I drop to my knees by her bed at night
She talks to Jesus and I close my eyes
And I thank god for all of the joy in my life
Oh, but most of all
For butterfly kisses after bedtime prayer
Sticking little white flowers all up in her hair
"Walk beside the pony, Daddy, it's my first ride."
"I know the cake looks funny, Daddy, but I sure tried."
Oh, with all that I've done wrong, I must have done something right
To deserve a hug every morning And butterfly kisses at night.
Sweet 16 today
She's looking like her mama a little more everyday
One part woman, the other part girl.
To perfume and make-up from ribbons and curls
Trying her wings out in a great big world.
But I remember...
Butterfly kisses after bedtime prayer
Sticking little white flowers all up in her hair.
"You know how much I love you, Daddy
But if you don't mind I'm only gonna kiss you on the cheek this time."
Oh with all that I've done wrong I must have done something right
To deserve her love every morning and butterfly kisses at night.
All the precious time
Like the wind, the years go by.
Precious butterfly.
Spread your wings and fly.
She'll change her name today.
She'll make a promise and I'll give her away.
Standing in the bride-room just staring at her.
She asked me what I'm thinking and I said
"I'm not sure-I just feel like I'm losing my baby girl."
She leaned over
Gave me butterfly kisses with her mama there
Sticking little white flowers all up in her hair
"Walk me down the aisle, Daddy-it's just about time."
"Does my wedding gown look pretty, Daddy? Daddy, don't cry"
Oh, with all that I've done wrong I must have done something right.
To deserve her love every morning and butterfly kisses
I couldn't ask God for more, man this is what love is.
I know I gotta let her go, but I'll always remember
Every hug in the morning and butterfly kisses...
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On a different note, I recently started listening to a podcast program: Morbid. The podcast hosts are an aunt and niece duo. These two ladies take turns to tell some horrific homicide cases. I was never into this kind of stories before. But somehow, once I started listening to it, I was hooked and found myself listening to one episode after another. These two ladies are really good story tellers. They told those terrible stories in a light-hearted way to make them more bearable to listen to.
When I listened to the stories, I wrote down the idioms I heard, and also some not as common words just so that I can get more familiar with them. Here are some of them if you are interested:
Beg to differ
Wear the pants
Hunky dory
Jack the Ripper
The Cat's pajamas
Avocado on the toast
Be on it
Rubbernecking
Moonshiner
Bootlegger
Banged out
Over a barrel
Dive head first
Shoe honing
A feather in your cap
Embellishment
Scalpel
Error on the side of
Vigilantes
Brazen
Hindsight is 20/20
joie de vivre: exuberant enjoyment of life.
Something got to give
Shed new light
Keep on trucking
Put a finger on it
Repugnant
Mill around
Injunction
Contravene
Hackle
Smoking gun
Lay it on the line
Cheap skate
Predicament
Reprieve
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