meal ticket
Example Sentences
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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
She encountered her promoter, King, sitting by himself after watching his meal ticket chomp his career into pieces.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 29, 2022
"If you missed a working day, then your meal ticket could be taken away," he said.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2021
Food had become so scarce that each prisoner was issued a monthly meal ticket, which was punched when he went through the food line to prevent the possibility of someone going through the line twice.
From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren
