The phrase "a common meal" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a meal that is typically shared or enjoyed by many people, often in a casual or communal setting.
Example: "During the festival, families gathered to enjoy a common meal, celebrating their traditions together."
Alternatives: "a shared meal" or "a typical meal".
Contract and sacrifice are connected, since treaties in ancient times were sanctioned by a common meal.
After marrying such improbable flavours, perhaps they'll find a way to unite his picky eaters around a common meal.
"In many cases, parents come home exhausted, not wanting to talk, and many families no longer even share a common meal," Francis wrote.
On the Sabbath they met in the common sanctuary, where they listened to a discourse by the member most skilled in their doctrines and then ate a common meal of coarse bread and a drink of spring water.
Borde is a common meal replacer in southern Ethiopia and is prepared from unmalted cereals and their malt [23].
In Mexico, turtle eggs are a common meal; locals claim the egg is an aphrodisiac.
Originally, the Eucharist was a repetition of the common meal of the local group of disciples with the addition of the bread and the cup signifying the presence of Jesus.
Friday night dinner at Haddad's house would be the traditional Tunisian Jewish meal of couscous, but Thursday's lunch was chicken schnitzel – a common Israeli meal imported by European Jewish immigrants.
For much of the past year, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, evicted from a condemned house, had to make daily rounds of assorted havens in the city to collect their children for school and then again for the evening common meal and baths at a relative's house, and finally back to their separate sleeping berths.
While it is unlikely that the ceremony of the bull's sacrifice was frequently performed, the common meal of the initiates was a regular feature of Mithraic worship.
11 17 29, written about ce 55, suggests that some abuses had arisen in conjunction with the common meal, or agapē, with which it was combined.
