单词 | meal ticket |
释义 | meal ticket 1. a ticket that entitles the bearer to meals in a specified restaurant, esp. when meals purchased in this manner are offered at reduced rates. 2. Informal. someone upon whom one is dependent for one's income or livelihood: selfish children who look upon their father only as a meal ticket. 3. Informal. something, as an object or ability possessed by a person, that is necessary to that person's livelihood: The radio announcer's voice was his meal ticket. [1865-70, Amer.] |
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