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gravy trainnoun informalUsed 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...- It's nothing more than a gravy train for big business to make huge amounts of money from the public purse!
- 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.
- 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.
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