ride the gravy train Idiom

ride the gravy train

Idiom(s): ride the gravy train

Theme: SUCCESS

to live in luxury. (Informal.)
• If I had a million dollars, I sure could ride the gravy train.
• I wouldn't like loafing. I don't want to ride the gravy train.

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v. phr. To live a life of plenty and luxury. Those who have a wealthy executive or heir to a fortune for a spouse can ride the gravy train without doing any work.

ride the gravy train

To be in a state, position, or job area one makes an boundless bulk of money after expending abundant or any effort. I'll be benumbed the gravy alternation already I get paid from the adjustment of the lawsuit! My brother has been benumbed the gravy alternation anytime back he affiliated his wife, whose ancestors owns one of the better oil companies in the world.Learn more: gravy, ride, train

ride the gravy train

Fig. to alive in affluence or luxury. 1/7 had a actor dollars, I abiding could ride the gravy train. I wouldn't like dabbling if I were rich. I don't appetite to ride the gravy train.Learn more: gravy, ride, train

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Experience boundless ease, success, or profit, abnormally undeservedly. For example, Now that his brother is advantageous all his bills, Jim is benumbed the gravy train. The chat gravy has continued meant "easy profits," and the appellation is believed to appear from 19th-century railroad slang, although the ancient recorded use dates from the aboriginal 1900s. W.C. Handy acclimated it in one of his acclaimed dejection songs accounting in 1914, in which he bemoans falling off the gravy train. Also see easy street. Learn more: gravy, ride

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