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

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

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

From Washington Times • Jun. 29, 2022

Food had become so scarce that each prisoner was issued a monthly meal ticket, which was punched when he went through the food line to prevent the possibility of someone going through the line twice.

From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren