until I was about 12 or 13 (now 20) I thought "making ends meet" was "making ends meat" and that "ends meat" was a really cheap type of meat, and that when people said that, they meant that they were making just enough to afford that 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 also thought that meat balls were made from testicals— Glenn
- I used to think that mushrooms were meat.Anon