square meal, a
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Napier had dropped down to 191 pounds while in Afghanistan, mainly because he was able to eat only one square meal a day.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 11, 2010
India is a country where, by the reckoning of nutritional experts, half the population fails to get even a single square meal a day.
From Time Magazine Archive
Another 5,400,000 babies and pregnant women get at least one square meal a day.
From Time Magazine Archive
They paid no attention to us, and looked—rather sadly, I thought—at the Greeks who were coming in to have a square meal, a thing that they themselves could only dream of.
From Caught by the Turks by Yeats-Brown, Francis
I'll make tracks for a square meal, a bed that a man can comfortably take off his boots and die in, and some violet-scented soap.
From In a Hollow of the Hills by Harte, Bret
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