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rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Oh, I always thought it was "Ends Meat", like, to get the cut-offs cheap bits of meat.(
G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩€, Mon 1 Aug 2011, 13:43,
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I think it's to do with tightening belts and that, squeezing until the two ends meet(, Mon 1 Aug 2011, 13:45, Reply)
Nope.The internet throws up several not-very-convincing origins for this, most plausible to my mind is that it’s from bookkeeping, in which the total at the bottom (“end”) of the column of income must at least match that at the bottom of the expenditure column if one is not to be living beyond one’s income.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 1 Aug 2011, 13:48,
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