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What's something you just learned, that you should have known for a while?

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What's something you just learned, that you should have known for a while?

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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

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It actually refers to tying a napkin around your neck before eating. You had to “make the ends meet” before you could eat
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  hmm might want to update wikipedia with that because they say unknown etymology.
  
  https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/make_ends_meet

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