meal ticket
Example Sentences
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He’s reminding them who their meal ticket is.
From Slate ● Oct. 10, 2026
Playing the Fonz has been a meal ticket that has yielded Winkler interesting reactions from unlikely sources.
From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2023
I went back to law school on my way out of my first marriage because I needed a meal ticket.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 28, 2023
While the Goolds lost all their money at the roulette tables, they thought they had found a meal ticket in Danish widow Emma Levin in 1907.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2022
Artemis would not risk causing brain damage to his meal ticket, nor could he afford to reveal the Book as the source of his information.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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