welfare Cadillac

Used to describe a person or group who receives government financial aid (perhaps fraudulently) and buys expensive, ostentatious things. As a someone who is struggling financially without the help of the government, I find those welfare Cadillacs infuriating.

See also: Cadillac, welfare

Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

See also:

a bleeding heart
bleeding
bleeding heart
parade out
sweetness
sweetness and light
(all) sweetness and light
all sweetness and light
be bleeding red ink
parade in front of (someone or something)

References in periodicals archive

Nixon, knowing nothing about country music, requested that Cash play two controversial right-wing country hits by other artists, "Okie from Muskogee" and "Welfare Cadillac."

Fight the power: The music business has historically plundered heritage for corporate profit

(31) There was even a hit country song, "Welfare Cadillac," by Guy Drake, that topped charts for over a month in 1970.

The song was so resonant that President Nixon requested that Johnny Cash sing "Welfare Cadillac" during a performance at the White House; Cash, however, refused the administration's request.

Guy Drake, "Welfare Cadillac," CowboyLyrics.com, http://www.cowboylyrics.com/tabs/drake-guy/welfare-cadillac-6468.html (accessed June 12, 2006).

"The Crime of Survival": fraud prosecutions, community surveillance, and the original "welfare queen"

Like Ronald Reagan's anecdotes about "welfare Cadillac" black mothers, the allegation by Clinton's welfare-reform task force and members of Congress that teens have babies to collect the "incentive" of $150 a month in AFDC benefits has been repeatedly disproven.

In defense of teenaged mothers

词组	welfare Cadillac
释义	welfare Cadillac welfare Cadillac Used to describe a person or group who receives government financial aid (perhaps fraudulently) and buys expensive, ostentatious things. As a someone who is struggling financially without the help of the government, I find those welfare Cadillacs infuriating. See also: Cadillac, welfare Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. See also: a bleeding heart bleeding bleeding heart parade out sweetness sweetness and light (all) sweetness and light all sweetness and light be bleeding red ink parade in front of (someone or something) References in periodicals archive Nixon, knowing nothing about country music, requested that Cash play two controversial right-wing country hits by other artists, "Okie from Muskogee" and "Welfare Cadillac." Fight the power: The music business has historically plundered heritage for corporate profit (31) There was even a hit country song, "Welfare Cadillac," by Guy Drake, that topped charts for over a month in 1970. The song was so resonant that President Nixon requested that Johnny Cash sing "Welfare Cadillac" during a performance at the White House; Cash, however, refused the administration's request. Guy Drake, "Welfare Cadillac," CowboyLyrics.com, http://www.cowboylyrics.com/tabs/drake-guy/welfare-cadillac-6468.html (accessed June 12, 2006). "The Crime of Survival": fraud prosecutions, community surveillance, and the original "welfare queen" Like Ronald Reagan's anecdotes about "welfare Cadillac" black mothers, the allegation by Clinton's welfare-reform task force and members of Congress that teens have babies to collect the "incentive" of $150 a month in AFDC benefits has been repeatedly disproven. In defense of teenaged mothers
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