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Ever thought that you could get flushed down the loo? That girls wee out their bottoms? Or that bumming means two men rubbing their bums together? Tell us about your childhood misconceptions. Thanks to Joefish for the suggestion.
( , Wed 18 Jan 2012, 15:21)
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I must have been pretty small when I first heard someone say '...they can barely make ends meet.' I understood that 'they' were poor, or hard up and I imagined 'ends meat' as being bits of meat scraped together after the butcher had done all the good cuts, scraped off bones etc. A bit like 'scraps' in the chippie.
It was many years later when I first saw it written down and it finally twigged what the 'real' meaning was. I still think my definition is better, after all, the ends of what exactly can't they get to meet?
Anyway, we'll all be eating it soon, once we go into recession again. If someone wants to set up the 'Ends Meat' company, specialising in poor cuts and offal, I want a share of the royalties please.
( , Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:52, 12 replies)
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but processed ham already exists. As do turkey twizzlers.
( , Thu 19 Jan 2012, 11:55, closed)
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And will using it from now on. Of course, it will still sound the same so nobody will notice, but it will make a difference to me.
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It just sat there on the sideboard, and went rancid.
/try the veal.
( , Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:22, closed)
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I looked in the fridge this morning for something for lunch and (apart from milk) there was one carrot, half a bag of sugar snap peas and three mini pickled beetroots. Chopped the lot up and mixed them with a 'microwave in a minute' rice. Made TWO nourishing meals.
Ends veg.
( , Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:26, closed)
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This comes from an archaic meaning of meet, meaning to be the same, and "making ends meet" means having the same amount of money at each end of the year (i.e. not slipping further towards poverty)
( , Thu 19 Jan 2012, 13:03, closed)
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This prompted me to do a whole 2 minutes research, and I'm not entirely convinced. Take a look at this: www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-mak1.htm Looks/feels just as likely to me.
Interestingly (or not), I'm not the first to think it was 'meat', with some far-fetched theory about stuffing sausages! Haven't linked to that, as it's farcical.
But, of course, we'll never know.
( , Thu 19 Jan 2012, 13:42, closed)
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So did my girlfriend.
The only difference is I realised years ago, and she only realised last week.
( , Thu 19 Jan 2012, 13:50, closed)
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