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gravy train

noun as in income obtained with minimal effort

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“If you are an illegal immigrant, you should leave now. The gravy train is over. While this subpoena focuses only on Los Angeles County — it is just the beginning.”

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He said Zelensky wanted to "keep the gravy train" of foreign aid running, a day after he appeared to blame Ukraine - not Russia - for starting the war.

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Now there seems little fear that Saudi Arabia's heavily criticised record on human rights will ever derail golf's gravy train.

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He says he has no intention of giving up that gravy train as HHS secretary, even though he would have direct control of the nation’s vaccine policy.

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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.

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

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