I used to believe that when people used the phrase "making ends meet" they were actually saying "making ends meat."
I thought that it meant that people were just making enough money to buy little scraps of meat or "ends meat."
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- My mom was always talking about "making
ends meat" but I don't ever remember having it served at dinner!— John Stees - When you are very poor you "can't make end's meat." End's meat is some sort of cheap very low quality meat.— Betty
- When I was six my sister told me Meat Pies were made from mashed up rats...to this day I can't eat a Meat Pie.— Jamie
- my brother used to believe that Ground Chuck meat was actually groundhog meat. Anon
- I used to believe that when people eloped that meant they were making babies...Anon
- When I was little I USED to THINK that hair grows by the ends.— Sirin