“Times are hard. A friend of mine had to get a second job as a butcher just to make meat ends”

To “make ends meet” is an expression meaning to have enough money to get by. A spoonerism pun was posted on Reddit—3amjokes on December 13, 2020:
     
“Times are hard. A friend of mine had to get a second job as a butcher just to make meat ends.”
   
Other “make ends meet” sayings include “About the time we think we can make both ends meet, somebody moves the ends,” “If you can’t make both ends meet, make one end a vegetable,” “Tried to start a dating site for chickens, but it didn’t work out. It was hard to make hens meet” and “You have to be a contortionist in this economy to make ends meet.”
     
             
Wiktionary: make ends meet
Verb
make ends meet
1. (idiomatic) To have enough money to cover expenses; to get by financially; to get through the pay period (sufficient to meet the next payday).
1661, Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England:
(entry on Archbishop Edmund Grindall) Worldly wealth he cared not for, desiring only to make both ends meet; and as for that little that lapped over he gave it to pious uses.
 
Google Groups: atl.corel
cooking question - roast timing
William Asher
Dec 15, 2005, 6:48:24 PM
(...)
It’s not my fault you didn’t simplify your answer by assuming the roastswere spheres.
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Bill “cutting corners to make meat ends” Asher
 
Reddit—3amjokes
Posted by u/letterheadless December 13, 2020
Times are hard. A friend of mine had to get a second job as a butcher just to make meat ends.
 
Reddit—Oneliners
Posted by u/letterheadless December 13, 2020
A friend of mine had to get a second job as a butcher just to make meat ends.
COMMENTS
134282
There’s a butcher in Brooklyn called Ends Meat.
NjGGeRsus
They better sell burnt ends
 
Twitter
Jeph Burton
@jephedrine
Times are hard. A friend of mine had to get a second job as a butcher just to make meat ends.
11:41 PM · Dec 13, 2020 from Manhattan, NY·Twitter for iPhone
 
Twitter
3AM
@3AM_Jokes
Times are hard. A friend of mine had to get a second job as a butcher just to make meat ends…. No text found
11:50 PM · Dec 13, 2020·IFTTT
 
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@guys_and
A friend of mine had to get a second job as a butcher just to make meat ends.
3:59 AM · Dec 14, 2020·IFTTT