adv. 食後

one fry short of a Happy Meal イディオム

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]

one fry 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 one fry abbreviate of a Happy Meal.Learn more: fry, happy, meal, of, one, short

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matter of fact, a matter of life and death, a matter of opinion, a max out may me meal meal ticket mean measure meat meat and drink to one one cannot love and be wise one card shy of a (full) deck one chance in a million one day one day at a time one day chicken and the next day feathers one degree under one egg short of a dozen one eye on one eye on (someone or something) one fell swoop one fell swoop, in one final thing one final word one fine day one flesh one foot in the grave one foot in the grave, have one for all, (and) all for one one for the (record) book(s) one for the (record) books one for the book one for the books one for the Gipper one for the road one fry short of a Happy Meal one good turn deserves another one half of the world does not know how the other half lives one hand for (oneself) and one (hand) for the ship One hand for oneself and one for the ship one hand washes the other one hand washes the other (and both wash the face) One has to draw the line somewhere one heck of a (something or someone) one hell of a (something or someone) one hour's sleep before midnight is worth two after one in a hundred one in a million one in a thousand one in the eye for one in the eye for somebody/something one in the eye for someone one in the oven one jump ahead one jump ahead of someone/something one last thing one last word one law for the rich and another (law) for the poor one law for the rich and another for the poor one little bit one man's loss is another man's gain