soup-ticket

The person who conforms for a soup-ticket or a blanket has simply added hypocrisy to his other failings, and has moreover gained for the church that contempt which men always feel for those they have overreached.

The Puritans Arlo Bates 1884

There are public soup establishments to which any person with a soup-ticket can go and demand food.

Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business David W. Bartlett 1870

Many a time had he beheld those who professed to have tasted nothing for two days, trudge off tottering but cheerful, with a soup-ticket, and he had not calculated on the difference between the children of want and the delicately nurtured girl, full of overwrought feeling.

Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Whether we admit or not Lord Macaulay's competence in the matter, we are sure that Lessing would not have thanked his biographer for this soup-ticket to a ladleful of fame.

Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855

'Please, ma'am, may I have a coal-ticket instead of a soup-ticket, if I mayn't have both?'"

The Farringdons Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler 1894