gravy train

noun

: a much exploited source of easy money

also : gravy sense 2a

And more than half of all contracts are renewed repeatedly—a circumstance referred to by insiders as the from-here-to-eternity gravy train.

—Jack Anderson

Synonyms of gravy train

• bonus
• dividend
• gift
• contribution
• tip
• donation

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

Recent Examples on the Web

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

Word History

First Known Use

1914, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for gravy train

• aeroplane
• appertain
• ascertain
• capitaine
• cassegrain
• cellophane
• chatelaine
• counterpane
• entertain
• gethsemane
• halothane
• hurricane