I spent months doing (with 24 times the money) what my father did in 1935: anguish about how to put meat on the table.

Was running late as usual, about to put meat in oven when gas ran out.

I shall give you two months to put meat back on your bones, little one.

Let him put meat back on them if he can!

The people want more political freedom, but they no longer trust it to put meat on the tables.

Carlos hunted small game to put meat on the family table.

We'll start putting meat back on those lovely bones in a few minutes.

Perhaps I was not so different from my parents, who looked on him to save them, to put meat on their table.

A native is seen hunting for food to "put meat on the table".

"Evidently I won't be putting much meat on the table."