brushfire

When information, often gossip, travels quickly and exponentially from person to person via text or social media often times spreading far beyond the initial intended audience.

“Girl, when I told Cindy that Mavis was breaking up with Carl she got right on her phone and started a brushfire. It wasn’t but 10 minutes before someone calls to tell me like I wasn’t the one to break that story but now Mavis is mad because George heard from Alyssa and told Carl. I need to learn to keep my mouth shut.”

butter your bread

to compliment effusively...sometimes insincerely sometimes not..with the idea of gaining favor

The way she went on about your new haircut I thought she was just trying to butter your bread

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