Bang for the buck
"Bang for the buck" is an idiom meaning the worth of one's money or exertion. It implies maximizing the return on investment, whether that's financial, time, or effort. The phrase suggests that for a given expenditure, you're getting a lot of benefit or satisfaction. The phrase, initially in military slang, referring to the firepower gained from military expenditures. It later expanded to encompass any situation where one gets a good return on their investment.
The phrase originated from the slang usage of the words "bang" which means "excitement" and "buck" which means "money". Variations of the term include "bang for your buck," "bang for one's buck," "more bang for the buck," "bigger bang for the buck," and mixings of these. "More bang for the buck" was preceded by "more bounce to the ounce", an advertising slogan used in 1950 to market the carbonated soft drink Pepsi.
William Safire discussed "bang for the buck" in his 1968 book, New Language of Politics. Safire stated that U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Erwin Wilson used the phrase in 1954 to summarize the New Look policy. The New Look, a 1950s national security policy during the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, was called "more bang for the buck", and "bigger bang for the buck". "More bang for the buck" was also used in the late 1960s by the U.S. military to refer to how it wanted to receive more combat power from the armaments it possessed.The United States, instead of supporting a large regular army, increasingly depended on nuclear weapons to hold the Soviet Union in check.
Below, harvest of the 'rose garden' in the backyard
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5. seemed rose vocabulary is farely barren, this rose is not the rose I meant to plant or being planned, call it wild rose or multiflora rose, came in the same pot of a red rose, thriving from the second year, the poor red rose is suffering malnutrition, shall move it after this floral season. Anyway, a rose is a rose is a rose.
6. This grimace was a total surprise, brought in by some birdies last year
