Meaning of gravy train in English
(Definition of gravy train from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
gravy train | Business English
Examples of gravy train
gravy train
People who say that this institution is just a 'gravy train' are wrong.
It must not be allowed to become a gravy train.
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Only yesterday, we heard that there have been about £3 billion-worth of inefficiencies/fraud and that the gravy train is speeding out of control.
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On top of that there is fraud—about £7 billion of it—or what is known as the "gravy train".
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For four years we have had a coalition gravy train for a large number of industries, some of which are of very dubious long-term value.
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It is in the interests, therefore, of the profession to ensure that the gravy train keeps rolling.
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For many, that sustains a gravy train that they have been riding all their lives.
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We are reassuring people that it will not be a political gravy train.
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Those least able to pay are to be clobbered to benefit those who are already on the gravy train.
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Those involved in the redundancy in the metropolitan counties are not on a gravy train.
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Those around him also are on the gravy train.
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They did just that, and told him that he was to join the frozen food gravy train.
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There is something in what those who refer to "a gravy train" say.
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I do not accept the description of the gravy train and bureaucracy.
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Does anyone think that it will remain at £35,000 when, six months ago, 30 more schools were wanting to get on to this education gravy train?
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