Thesaurus results for GRAVY TRAIN

gravy train

noun

as in bonus

something given in addition to what is ordinarily expected or owed the new tax law offers a real gravy train to certain categories of investors

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Recent Examples of gravy train 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

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Third baseman Alex Bregman would make sense on a shorter-term deal, though because the Astros gave him a qualifying offer, the Cubs would lose their second- and fifth-highest picks in the 2025 draft and $1 million from their international bonus pool.

Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 16 Jan. 2025
His signing bonus of $45,000 is almost 70 times the median annual income of his fellow Ugandans.

Greg Presto, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025