square meal
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Three or four children cram behind each desk at a local school, which aims to feed each pupil a bowl of rice and beans so they can have at least one square meal per day.
From Reuters ● Dec. 13, 2021
Maybe for lunch today I’ll make a square meal of my own.
From The Verge ● Aug. 26, 2021
Harriet herself describes the perfect gingerbread as “a square meal and a good night’s sleep and a long, blood‐spattered howl at the moon rolled into one.”
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2019
On this day in 1895, the Nogales Oasis newspaper noted that in Phoenix, “there are now several restaurants offering a square meal for the sum of 15 cents.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 10, 2018
A hundred guineas when he was literally down to his last square meal!
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
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