gravy Idiome

good gravy

oh, how surprising, gosh Good gravy! I've got BINGO! I won!

gravy train

a job or work that pays more than it is worth For many years his job was a real gravy train but now the company has become very strict and will not pay overtime.

the rest is gravy

the rest is free, the rest of the money is profit When we get the grain cheque, we pay our bills, and the rest is gravy!

gravy

see it's all gravy

it's all gravy

everything's cool

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.

In the gravy

If you're in the gravy, you're rich and make money easily.

Rest is gravy

(USA) If the rest is gravy, it is easy and straightforward once you have reached that stage.

gravy train|gravy|train

n., slang, informal The kind of job that brings in a much higher income than the services rendered would warrant. Jack's job at the Athletic Club as Social Director is a regular gravy train.

pan gravy|gravy|pan

n. Gravy made with meat drippings with seasoning and often a little water. His wife liked cream gravy, but he preferred pan gravy. Pan gravy from country ham is often called red-eye gravy.

ride the gravy train|gravy|gravy train|ride|train

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.

gravy train, ride the

gravy train, ride the
Experience excessive ease, success, or profit, especially undeservedly. For example, Now that his brother is paying all his bills, Jim is riding the gravy train. The word gravy has long meant “easy profits,” and the term is believed to come from 19th-century railroad slang, although the earliest recorded use dates from the early 1900s. W.C. Handy used it in one of his famous blues songs written in 1914, in which he bemoans falling off the gravy train. Also see easy street, on.