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Definition of gravy train in English: gravy trainnoun informal Used to refer to a situation in which someone can make a lot of money for very little effort. come to Hollywood and get on the gravy train Example sentencesExamples - It's nothing more than a gravy train for big business to make huge amounts of money from the public purse!
- I went to grad school, a move that both ended my ride on the industry gravy train and robbed me of disposable income for a number of years.
- There is also a determination to end the gravy train which lets a lawyer go into court for 10 minutes to obtain an adjournment in a case and then claim a full daily rate for the job.
- Who can blame them for joining the benefits gravy train?
- Most of his income comes from unemployment benefit, a far cry from the sums being earned by those who have jumped on the game's financial gravy train.
- Once the gravy train stopped, I had to buy it myself.
- They gorge themselves on a gravy train fuelled by our taxes and act as puppets for secret, undemocratic organisations over which we have no control.
- Everyone knows that getting a Government contract is often looked upon as a financial gravy train.
- Be you a public representative at local or national level, the certainty is that you are aboard a financially rewarding gravy train.
- Millions of pounds are pouring into this ever-growing bureaucratic gravy train and it is now an embarrassment to the Government.
- The bills started to come in in the eighties, of course, and financial stringency made it necessary to start cutting back on the gravy train.
- Among those ready to board the gravy train is a Scottish farmer who will collect his annual grant of £100,000 in Australia.
- My reasoning was that nobody wanted to shut down the gravy train of consumer spending that was propping up this economy.
- But it's good to see that those stalwart defenders of the public purse, our councillors, are part of that gravy train.
- It was a gravy train while it lasted, but it was unsustainable.
Synonyms easy task, easy job, child's play, five-finger exercise, gift, walkover, nothing, sinecure
Definition of gravy train in US English: gravy trainnounˈɡreɪvi ˌtreɪn informal Used to refer to a situation in which someone can make a lot of money for very little effort. come to Hollywood and get on the gravy train Example sentencesExamples - It's nothing more than a gravy train for big business to make huge amounts of money from the public purse!
- They gorge themselves on a gravy train fuelled by our taxes and act as puppets for secret, undemocratic organisations over which we have no control.
- But it's good to see that those stalwart defenders of the public purse, our councillors, are part of that gravy train.
- Once the gravy train stopped, I had to buy it myself.
- It was a gravy train while it lasted, but it was unsustainable.
- The bills started to come in in the eighties, of course, and financial stringency made it necessary to start cutting back on the gravy train.
- Millions of pounds are pouring into this ever-growing bureaucratic gravy train and it is now an embarrassment to the Government.
- There is also a determination to end the gravy train which lets a lawyer go into court for 10 minutes to obtain an adjournment in a case and then claim a full daily rate for the job.
- Among those ready to board the gravy train is a Scottish farmer who will collect his annual grant of £100,000 in Australia.
- Be you a public representative at local or national level, the certainty is that you are aboard a financially rewarding gravy train.
- My reasoning was that nobody wanted to shut down the gravy train of consumer spending that was propping up this economy.
- Most of his income comes from unemployment benefit, a far cry from the sums being earned by those who have jumped on the game's financial gravy train.
- Everyone knows that getting a Government contract is often looked upon as a financial gravy train.
- I went to grad school, a move that both ended my ride on the industry gravy train and robbed me of disposable income for a number of years.
- Who can blame them for joining the benefits gravy train?
Synonyms easy task, easy job, child's play, five-finger exercise, gift, walkover, nothing, sinecure
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