Meanings of free-lunch in English

This they supplemented with other selections from the liberally supplied free-lunch counter.

The free-lunch man on the corner told me where you were, quick.

So hey for the wicker demi-john and the free-lunch brand of grub!

Beer and cheese forever together, as in the free-lunch ditty of that great day:

Robust texture and flavor reminiscent of free-lunch and old-time bars.

Any free-lunch stand in town serves a better one.

The men were talking excitedly; a few thin, ragged hangers-on were looting the free-lunch dishes surreptitiously.

Curly the tramp sidled toward the free-lunch counter.

That fall partly reflects the free-lunch benefit of changes in the inflation measure permitted for the calculation of liabilities.

This isn't a free-lunch counter.

If oil goes to $20 (a barrel), there could be subsidy problems but free-lunch operations are very inexpensive.

He went over to the free-lunch counter and slapped ham and cheese and pickles on a slice of none-too-fresh bread.

And thirsty; assuredly the provender of those hairy brutes would have been most excellent stuff for the free-lunch counter of a saloon.

He thought first of a free-lunch saloon, but he had an objection to using the fork just laid down by another man.

Any saloon Cheddar, formerly served on every free-lunch counter in the U.S. Before Prohibition, free-lunch cheese was the backbone of America's cheese industry.

When you an' me mushed into the Yukon in the good ole days, it didn't rain soup and they wa'n't no free-lunch joints.