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a meal ticket
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a person or thing that someone uses as a source of money or support
Critical when about a person (someone is being used). About things, it means a reliable way to earn a living.
In context
For the agent, the young singer was just a meal ticket.
A good degree is no longer a meal ticket for life.
More idioms about food
- a bad appleone bad person who has a bad effect on the rest of a group
- a couch potatoa person who spends a lot of time sitting and watching TV instead of being active
- a different kettle of fisha completely different situation from the one just mentioned
- a finger in every pieinvolved in many different activities, often to get power
- a melting pota place where people of many cultures live and mix together