couple (of) fries short of a Happy Meal Idioma

square meal

full meal: meat, bread, vegetables and milk We need at least one square meal each day. Do you agree?

mealymouthed

Idiom(s): mealymouthed

Theme: FRANKNESS - LACKING

not frank or direct; too shy to speak directly. (Informal.)
• Jane is too mealymouthed to tell Frank she dislikes him. She just avoids him.
• Don’t be so mealymouthed. It's better to speak plainly.

make a meal of

Idiom(s): make a meal of sth

Theme: EATING

to eat only a large portion of one kind of food as an entire meal.
• There were lots of salad makings, so we fixed a large salad and made a meal of it.
• We had tons of leftover turkey after the festival, so the next day we sat down and made a meal of it.

eat a meal out

Idiom(s): eat (a meal) out AND dine out

Theme: EATING

to eat a meal at a restaurant.
• I like to eat a meal out every now and then.
• Yes, it's good to eat out and try different kinds of food.
• It costs a lot of money to dine out often.

Make a meal

If someone makes a meal of something, they spend too long doing it or make it look more difficult than it really is.

Mealy-mouthed

A mealy-mouthed person doesn't say what they mean clearly.

a square meal

a filling meal: "You need a square meal after all that exercise."

square meal|meal|square

n. phr. A full, nourishing well-balanced meal. The refugees looked as if they hadn't had a square meal in months.

meal

meal
In addition to the idiom beginning with meal; also see square meal, a.

meal ticket

meal ticket
A person or thing depended on as a source of income, as in Magic Johnson was a real meal ticket for his team, or Her interpersonal skills will be her meal ticket when she goes into sales. This metaphoric expression alludes to the earlier practice of handing out tickets that entitle their holder to a meal. [Early 1900s]

a brace (of) chips abbreviate of a Happy Meal

A aspersing byword acceptation not actual able or of ambiguous brainy capacity. It can arise in abounding altered forms and variations (for example: "a few sandwiches shy of a picnic," "one agenda shy of a abounding deck," etc.). A "Happy Meal" is a children's meal served at McDonald's fast-food restaurants, and it about contains French fries. Every time Paul tells me about his latest cabal theory, I can't advice cerebration that he's a brace chips abbreviate of a Happy Meal. Tom's one of the top acceptance in the school. His sister, on the added hand—well, let's aloof say that she's a brace of chips abbreviate of a Happy Meal.Learn more: couple, fries, happy, meal, of, short

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