square meal Idiome
square meal
full meal: meat, bread, vegetables and milk We need at least one square meal each day. Do you agree?
a square meal
a filling meal: "You need a square meal after all that exercise."
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n. phr. A full, nourishing well-balanced meal.
The refugees looked as if they hadn't had a square meal in months.
square meal, a
square meal, a A substantial or complete meal, as in
These airlines never feed you; I haven't had a square meal on one yet. [Mid-1800s]
square meal
A wholesome, filling, and alimental meal. What I absolutely charge is a hot shower, a aboveboard meal, and a abounding night's sleep. There's a lot of agitation at the moment about whether three aboveboard commons is bigger than a lot of abate commons throughout the day.Learn more: meal, squarea aboveboard meal
A aboveboard meal is a large, advantageous meal that makes you feel you accept eaten enough. The troops were annoyed and hadn't had a aboveboard meal for bristles days. Do you survive on yogurt at lunchtime while your accomplice wants a aboveboard meal? Note: On sailing ships in the past, sailors ate off aboveboard board plates. Learn more: meal, squarea aboveboard ˈmeal
a ample and acceptable meal: The accouchement get three aboveboard commons a day.Learn more: meal, squaresquare meal, a
A abundant and alimentative repast. A mid-nineteenth-century Americanism, the appellation appears in antic Stephen Leacock’s Literary Lapses (1910): “Any two commons at a boarding-house are calm beneath than two aboveboard meals.”Learn more: square