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Updated: May 11, 2025
These are the people who stand in hundreds every day outside the doors of the shelters improvised to rescue them, and who receive, in return for the loss of everything that makes life sweet, or intelligible, or at least endurable, a cot in a dormitory, a meal-ticket and perhaps, on lucky days, a pair of shoes... What are the Parisians doing meanwhile?
I really ought to pension him after his long years in the Cardigan service, but I'll be hanged if we can afford pensions any more particularly to keep a man in booze; so the best our old woods-boss gets from me is this shanty, or another like it when we move to new cuttings, and a perpetual meal-ticket for our camp dining room while the Cardigans remain in business.
I simply mention Percy to show why I'm a little slow to regard members of my family as charitable institutions that I should settle endowments on. If there's one thing I like less than another, it's being regarded as a human meal-ticket.
The political backers have got it down to what has been called a 'cash-register, commutation-ticket basis, called so from the fact that in some of these places they issued tickets, on the plan of a commutation meal-ticket, and had cash registers at the entries." Lest some one think the newspaper exaggerating after all, let me add Bishop Potter's comment before his Diocesan Convention.
Remember how I warned you, last December. I told you then that the secret of a woman's meal-ticket was never hidden very long." During this speech Mrs. Condor's voice had dropped from its original tone of petty rancor to one of petulant self-justification. Stillman knew at once that her ill-temper had caught her off-guard and she was already trying to crawl slowly back into his favor.
On the other hand, if a woman marries for money, or a home, or position, or place, or power, or a "meal-ticket" for anything but love, she will doubtless be anesthetic and stay so. She deserves to! She sells herself for a mess of pottage, whoever she is. She may be a "good woman," but she can never be a good wife.
This fact was only half suspected before; men have always wanted to see exactly what was beneath those long flowing skirts; and woman has always known that she possessed at least one trump card, in the game of enslaving man to become what modern slang has so aptly labeled her "meal-ticket."
"At what particular place have you lived or lodged since that time?" "In jail." "What were you in jail for?" "Stealing a meal-ticket, this coat and cap from Patsy." "I gave the things to him, sir," said Patsy, "and he was discharged." "Where have you been living since you left the workhouse?" "In the streets and in the fields." "Do you drink?" "No, sir."
Rhodes had a peculiar affection for Kimberley. One reason perhaps was that it represented the cornerstone of his fortune. He always referred to the mines as his "bread and cheese." He made and lost vast sums elsewhere and scattered his money about with a lavish hand. The diamond mines did not belie their name and gave him a constant meal-ticket.
This was a trick on the mother of the dead lamb intended to get her to care for the present lamb, who was an orphan; which is to say, the extra pelt was the lamb's meal-ticket, and she had given him several meals on the evidence of smell.
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