double-dipper

double-dipper

1. A recipient of a government pension who continues to work or receives Social Security. Don't be a double-dipper—collect your pension and let someone else have this job.
2. Someone who takes a bite of a food item and then inserts it into a dip, thereby contaminating the dip. Hey, don't be a double-dipper—no one wants your germs!
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

double-dipper

1. n. a person who collects two salaries; a federal employee who collects a federal pension and Social Security. The double-dippers say they weren’t doing anything wrong.
2. n. a person who dips a chip or veggie into a dip or sauce after having taken a bite of the chip or veggie, thus risking the introduction of germs into the dip. I always watch the snack table to make sure there are no double-dippers.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • pension off
  • be meat and drink
  • be meat and drink to
  • be meat and drink to (someone)
  • pilfer
  • pilfer from
  • pilfer from (someone or something)
  • pilfered
  • meat and drink to (one)
  • meat and drink to one
References in periodicals archive
Double-dippers are those who are registered twice on the payroll and receive two salaries from two different public sector jobs.
"Corruption is a significant issue in Yemen: there are those who take more than one wage; there are ghost workers and double-dippers. The biometric system should remove the worst of this corruption and ensure those who do their job are paid appropriately," she told Gulf News.
They will now have the opportunity to come back as "double-dippers" and get a wage while receiving their pensions.
Those who initiated the chatter (dubbed "double-dippers" in the media) cited several factors in their favor: a still anemic housing market, a stubbornly high unemployment rate, Europe's sovereign-debt problems and big austerity drive, China's slowing growth, and massive overcapacity in the U.S.
Perhaps bolstered by positive earnings reports, or by the realization that double-dippers could be wrong--housing starts rose 1.7 percent in July and the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 7 percent--the firms maintained their outlook for 2010.
We are also being told that annuitants (also known as double-dippers), who have been building their little empire [in the] full-time reserve army, will be put on a tighter leash for full-time contracts.
This will then ensure that double-dippers will be made available to shoulder their weight in the summer training cycles instructional cadre taskings and not hide out at the golf courses all summer on annuitant break and annual leave.
Maybe if these double-dippers were willing to give up some of their greed, we could afford to keep more murderers in jail without overtaxing the rest of us even further.
For the OBRA changes in 1981, a period Asen labels "reducing welfare," anti-welfare advocates followed Ronald Reagan's lead in identifying recipients as cheats, shirkers and double-dippers. Though it was conceded that some of the poor were "truly needy," the ratio of deserving to undeserving was never specified, and a dogged emphasis on the latter characterization suggested that most recipients were taking the American taxpayer for a ride (83-86).
By 1988, Asen sees the attack on welfare as having shifted its emphasis from shirkers and double-dippers to welfare dependency and the long-term recipient.
At the very least, she said, the Tea Party group wants all double-dippers to disclose their pensions on financial disclosure forms.
Many of the double-dippers are at the golf course, or at the lake, and are almost always simply unavailable for any tasking or training away from their comfort zone.
Sir, for most double-dippers the primary reserves and Class B or C contracts are just extra golf green and beer money, and the job is not taken seriously.
Nor are they given information on whether or not the retired generals are paid for their appearances: Are they mere double-dippers, getting military pensions and salaries from their contractor employers, or triple-dippers getting pensions, salaries and TV analyst money, or quadruple-dippers getting pensions, salaries, analyst checks and lecture fees now that they are network stars?