gravy train

noun

: a much exploited source of easy money

also : gravy sense 2a

Examples of gravy train in a Sentence

They're trying to get on board the gravy train. the new tax law offers a real gravy train to certain categories of investors

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The gravy train College is huge business: a hundreds-of-billions machine with donations of $58B last year alone. —

thehustle.co, 25 Oct. 2024 This just-okay kids’ film — the sort trying to capitalize on the Harry Potter gravy train way after the fact — is set in the 1950s as a boy, Lewis (Owen Vaccaro), is sent to live with his eccentric uncle Jonathan (Jack Black) after his parents’ tragic death. —

Tim Grierson, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2024 By now, all manner of opportunists had entered the ANC tent, eager to jump on the Radical Economic Transformation gravy train. —

John Rapley, Foreign Affairs, 10 Jan. 2023 Inside the Pentagon, there are distinct signs that the prime contractor gravy train might be slowing. —

Editorial Board, Washington Post, 24 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for gravy train