gravy train

noun

: a much exploited source of easy money

Examples of gravy train in a Sentence

They're trying to get on board the gravy train. the new tax law offers a real gravy train to certain categories of investors
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However, the radical left has seen this coming, and has targeted Wyoming as the gravy train runs out. Chuck Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025 But neither happened, and the tax-free gravy train continued to roll along. Robert W. Wood, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025 But nothing seems to stop the gravy train, not even the specter of being called out in print. Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 13 Aug. 2025 However, if the U.S. government continues subsidizing nuclear technologies without regard to proliferation risk, then the plutonium entrepreneurs will keep hopping on that gravy train. Alan J. Kuperman, Scientific American, 30 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for gravy train

Word History

First Known Use

1914, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of gravy train was in 1914

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“Gravy train.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gravy%20train. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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