license to print money
Example Sentences
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“It looks a lot easier than it is, and people think it’s a license to print money — but it’s not.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2022
It’s worth mentioning that owning season tickets isn’t a license to print money.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 14, 2021
News organizations that were not moved to address this problem when the business represented a license to print money have come to see things differently since the business model began its collapse.
From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2021
The franchise is a license to print money: Each truck, it’s been estimated, nets Ford more than $13,000.
From Slate • Apr. 27, 2018
The father of a chum had bought a vacuum cleaner factory and said it was a license to print money.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
