gravy train

财富列车征税列车财富的列车财富火车

gravy train 的定义

n. 名词 noun

Slang.

  1. 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

n. 名词 noun

income obtained with minimal effort

gravy train 的近义词 3

更多gravy train例句

  1. From there we took the train to Nice, France, but the French border control caught us and sent us back to Italy.
  2. The U.S. military is finally starting to train Iraqi troops to fight ISIS in restive Anbar province.
  3. Thankfully there were no casualties—the driver managed to stop the train immediately.
  4. The U.S. only plans to train roughly 3,000 Iraqi troops in the first year.
  5. “We met the smuggler in the train station; he came to speak with us about the services he provided,” Yazbek says.
  6. It was only the engine drawing the train of cars up to the station to take the passengers away.
  7. He went careering forward to his point, overturning and wounding; but as he speeded on, he left a train of enemies behind.
  8. The fire along the three miles front is like the rumble of an express train running over fog signals.
  9. We were about nine hours of fair daylight traversing 160 miles of level or descending grade, with a light passenger train.
  10. There were only seventeen stations on the whole line, over which the first passenger train ran on Sept. 17.