be a license to print money
be a license to print money
Of an activity, business model, or company, to yield very high profits but require little or no effort to do so. Primarily heard in US. All these hefty parking fees and fines are just a license to print money for the city. These trashy gossip magazines are of such low quality, yet they always fly off the shelves. The whole racket is a license to print money.
See also: license, money, print
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- be a licence to print money
- up on (one's) ear
- chip
- chips
- Two Bob
- (as) dead as mutton
- dead as mutton
- mutton
- one of the boys
- one of the lads