meal ticket

Example Sentences

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But the place was for sale and his meal ticket was about to run out.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2025

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 encountered her promoter, King, sitting by himself after watching his meal ticket chomp his career into pieces.

From Washington Times • Jun. 29, 2022

Mameh was his meal ticket to America, and once he got here, he was done with her.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride