meal ticket

A combination of good relationships, opportunity and Ireland being a minor meal ticket for famous pros on the downswing played a role in bringing one of the greats to the League of Ireland.

I went back to law school on my way out of my first marriage because I needed a meal ticket.

The young ones saw me as a meal ticket, and the older men saw me as their Lolita.

She needs trustworthy people around her who work for her and don’t see her as a meal ticket.

She encountered her promoter, King, sitting by himself after watching his meal ticket chomp his career into pieces.