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gravy train

noun as in income obtained with minimal effort

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He questioned whether the government was dragging the "issue out to exhaust victims until their deaths" and if the scheme has become a "gravy train" for its lawyers.

From BBC

Because there’s only so much money for the leader to throw around, and the more people there are on the gravy train, the less there is for each individual insider.

From Salon

He questions whether the government is dragging the "issue out to exhaust victims until their deaths" and if the scheme has become a "gravy train" for its lawyers.

From BBC

They realized they hadn’t branched out like she had and that their livelihoods would end if their Bravo gravy train petered out.

“There’s this notion, ironically, that there’s some gravy train for scientists,” he said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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