meal ticket
Example Sentences
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She encountered her promoter, King, sitting by himself after watching his meal ticket chomp his career into pieces.
From Washington Times
He said, “Son, you know what? You’ve got a meal ticket for life here.”
From New York Times
“He also was courageous,” Nielsen observed, referring to Hart’s successful fight against the CTA, a Democratic meal ticket in election campaigns.
From Los Angeles Times
That has not stopped Mr. Biden from blasting the state’s meal ticket.
From Washington Times
It provides the hospital’s patients and their caregivers with meal tickets to use to get free meals from nearby restaurants.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
