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gravy train noun a money-making opportunity, a generous situation US, 1914- Ten per cent and I furnish the car! You think this is a gravy train you’re riding? — Horace McCoy, Kiss Tomorrow Good-bye, p. 46, 1948
- The little beaver is derailing the gravy train, I think. — William Brinkley, Don’t Go Near the Water, p. 87, 1956
- Graft’s the new gravy train so the silly things have climbed aboard[.] — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, p. 22, 1962
- You’re upset that you’re missing the gravy train? — Airheads, 1994
- Mercenary little bitch knew a good gravy train when she was riding one. — Danny King, The Bank Robber Diaries, p. 24, 2002
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