a square meal

Meaning

1. a good, satisfying meal

   He looks as though he hasn't had a square meal for weeks.

In the movies · 3

• Three square meals a day. Three square meals a day.Gangs of New York2002
• Okay, you get three square meals a day and we'll get you a nice pair of trousers.This Means War2012
• To give us our daily beating and three square meals a day and bread and water and we'll just sit staring at the sun, going blind, okay?Faces1968

From the same entry

• a square peg
• back to square one
• square away
• square off
• square up
• square up
• square with
• square with
• fair and square