Analyze and comment on the follo

Analyze and comment on the following.Analyze the following dialogue and comment on the rhetoric use of homonym in italicized font. Customer: "How come your sausages taste like meat at one end, but like bread at the other? " Butcher replied: "Madam, in times like these no butcher can make both ends meet. "
【正确答案】：

AS HOMONYMS ARE IDENTICAL IN SOUND OR SPELLING, PARTICULARLY HOMOPHONES, THEY ARE OFTEN EMPLOYED TO CREATE PUNS FOR DESIRED EFFECT OF HUMOR, SARCASM OR RIDICULE. 

"MAKING ENDS MEET" IS AN EXPRESSION TO MEAN "TO MANAGE SO THAT ONE'S MEANS ARE SUFFICIENT FOR ONE'S NEEDS."

MEAT AND MEET ARE HOMOPHONES. 

HERE THE BUTCHER CLEVERLY EMPLOYED THE STRUCTURE OF THE IDIOM TO HIS ADVANTAGE TO MAKE AN EXCUSE IN A HUMOROUS WAY IN ORDER TO EVADE THE CUSTOMER'S INQUIRY AND TRY TO COVER THE FACTR THAT HE WAS SELLING UNQUALIFIED SAUSAGES.

【题目解析】：由于同音词在发音或拼写上都是相同的，尤其是同音词，所以它们经常被用来制造双关语，以达到幽默、讽刺或嘲笑的效果。“量入为出”是指“管理，使自己的手段足以满足自己的需要”。肉和肉是同音词。在这里，屠夫巧妙地利用习语的结构，以幽默的方式找借口，以逃避顾客的询问，并试图掩盖他销售不合格香肠的事实。