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gravy train
1 ENTRIES FOUND:
gravy train noun
plural gravy trains
gravy train
noun
plural gravy trains
Learner's definition of GRAVY TRAIN
[count] informal
: something (such as a business or a government program) that provides money to many people without requiring much work or effort轻松赚大钱的美差
- They're trying to get on board the gravy train.他们正在力图搞到轻松赚大钱的美差。
- ride the gravy train摊上轻松赚大钱的美差
gravy train
noun
: a much exploited source of easy money
also : gravy sense 2a
Synonyms
Example Sentences
They're trying to get on board the gravy train. the new tax law offers a real gravy train to certain categories of investors
Recent Examples on the Web Most minor leaguers still toil for substandard wages under conditions that seem unfathomable given the gravy train that is pretty much everything else Major League Baseball touches. 
Mitchell Nathanson, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2022 Kevin’s gravy train will end soon which probably explains the timing of these hurtful statements... Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 7 Aug. 2022 Moore’s real threat is to partisan election lawfare and the gravy train that the Elias Law Group, 70 attorneys strong, is riding. David B. Rivkin Jr. And Jason Snead, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2022 New competition—particularly from Disney+, but also from Amazon and HBOMax—had finally started to cut into the endless gravy train. Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 3 June 2022 Other potential casualties of such a ban would be things close to his heart: his populist campaign promises, and a financial gravy train for culture warriors in Europe and in the United States. New York Times, 19 May 2022 It’s the boosters and their attorneys on one end of the gravy train and sports agents on the other. Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 11 May 2022 In the meantime, taxpayers, who financed those debts, were left holding the bag while many high-earning borrowers rode the gravy train. Beth Akers, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022 Mitchell’s cooperation spelled the end to a gravy train for himself and Bickers, who was then his boss and a long-time friend. J. Scott Trubey, ajc, 23 Feb. 2022 See More
Mitchell Nathanson, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2022 Kevin’s gravy train will end soon which probably explains the timing of these hurtful statements... Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 7 Aug. 2022 Moore’s real threat is to partisan election lawfare and the gravy train that the Elias Law Group, 70 attorneys strong, is riding. David B. Rivkin Jr. And Jason Snead, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2022 New competition—particularly from Disney+, but also from Amazon and HBOMax—had finally started to cut into the endless gravy train. Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 3 June 2022 Other potential casualties of such a ban would be things close to his heart: his populist campaign promises, and a financial gravy train for culture warriors in Europe and in the United States. New York Times, 19 May 2022 It’s the boosters and their attorneys on one end of the gravy train and sports agents on the other. Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 11 May 2022 In the meantime, taxpayers, who financed those debts, were left holding the bag while many high-earning borrowers rode the gravy train. Beth Akers, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022 Mitchell’s cooperation spelled the end to a gravy train for himself and Bickers, who was then his boss and a long-time friend. J. Scott Trubey, ajc, 23 Feb. 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
1914, in the meaning defined above
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