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Square meal

noun

A substantial and nourishing meal.

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"Square meal" Quotes from Famous Books

... lasted, though it was risky enough. Now we have to beg it of the people, and what with that and the fear they are in from the Germans if they give us any help, we fare badly. If you can get us a good square meal apiece we shall be more grateful to you than we are for warning us against the Uhlans. We don't fear them half as much as we ...

— Two Daring Young Patriots - or, Outwitting the Huns • W. P. Shervill

... famishing, Bunny. It's a fact that I eat very little, and that at odd hours, but I ought not to have forgotten you. Get yourself a snack outside, but not a square meal if you can resist one. We've got to celebrate this ...

— Raffles - Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman • E. W. Hornung

... seem to me," I said, "to be anything else. You talk like a tadpole. Haven't you any other interest in life? What about home, and patriotism, and Shakespeare—all those sort of things? Why not give it a square meal, and silence it for an hour or two; leave yourself free to think of ...

— They and I • Jerome K. Jerome

... and after paying a license fee and getting a square meal, opened up for business. Hardly anything was done during the afternoon, but toward evening trade picked up, and when they finally dismissed the crowd they found they had taken ...

— Young Auctioneers - The Polishing of a Rolling Stone • Edward Stratemeyer

... high in his favour. "Can't beat the Elsey for a good dog-fight and a good game of cribbage," he said, every time he came in or left us, and that from Happy Dick was high praise. At times he added: "Nor for a square meal neither," thereby inciting Cheon to further triumphs ...

— We of the Never-Never • Jeanie "Mrs. Aeneas" Gunn

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