cash cow
Example Sentences
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The property is clearly no one’s home but a cash cow, turned over every few days or weeks for new arrivals.
The company’s advertising arm has long been a lucrative cash cow that is still managing double-digit growth rates.
To protect the government’s cash cow, politicians avoided meddling in PdVSA, which was run by highly trained engineers and other professionals.
"This is their cash cow. They're not going to let it go easily."
From BBC
The bulk of Samsung’s profits once came from smartphones, but the semiconductor business has now come back as its major cash cow, accounting for more than half of its earnings recently.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
