meal ticket
Example Sentences
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It provides the hospital’s patients and their caregivers with meal tickets to use to get free meals from nearby restaurants.
From New York Times
Having lost their meal ticket — the government — the gangs have become independent predators.
From Seattle Times
He might as well have been in a leisure suit, so ironclad was Pete Carroll’s commitment to keeping his primary meal ticket out of harm’s way.
From Seattle Times
Her parents “taught Jane bookkeeping at age seven,” Moore wrote, in contrast to almost all the other parents, who refused to allow their meal tickets to grow up and, in most cases, squandered their money.
From Seattle Times
They have to buy meal tickets because the refrigerators and the stoves have been removed.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
