meal ticket

Example Sentences

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Playing the Fonz has been a meal ticket that has yielded Winkler interesting reactions from unlikely sources.

From New York Times • Oct. 24, 2023

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

From Scientific American • Sep. 28, 2023

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

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2022

While the Goolds lost all their money at the roulette tables, they thought they had found a meal ticket in Danish widow Emma Levin in 1907.

From BBC • Jul. 9, 2022

“That means they’re not on the meal ticket, then.”

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt