gravy train 的定义
Slang.
- a position in which a person or group receives excessive and unjustified money or advantages with little or no effort: The top executives were on the gravy train with their huge bonuses.
gravy train 近义词
income obtained with minimal effort
gravy train 的近义词 3 个
更多gravy train例句
- From there we took the train to Nice, France, but the French border control caught us and sent us back to Italy.
- The U.S. military is finally starting to train Iraqi troops to fight ISIS in restive Anbar province.
- Thankfully there were no casualties—the driver managed to stop the train immediately.
- The U.S. only plans to train roughly 3,000 Iraqi troops in the first year.
- “We met the smuggler in the train station; he came to speak with us about the services he provided,” Yazbek says.
- It was only the engine drawing the train of cars up to the station to take the passengers away.
- He went careering forward to his point, overturning and wounding; but as he speeded on, he left a train of enemies behind.
- The fire along the three miles front is like the rumble of an express train running over fog signals.
- We were about nine hours of fair daylight traversing 160 miles of level or descending grade, with a light passenger train.
- There were only seventeen stations on the whole line, over which the first passenger train ran on Sept. 17.