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Idiom: Meal Ticket

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A ticket or voucher that can be exchanged for food.

Someone or something that provides income or livelihood, especially as an exploited source.

Example Sentences

1
She saw him as her meal ticket and married him for his money.
2
Many aspiring actors come to Hollywood hoping to find a meal ticket in the form of a lucrative film contract.
3
He considers his job as a software engineer to be a meal ticket for his family.
4
Winning the lottery seemed like a sure meal ticket to a life of luxury.
5
She saw the inheritance as her meal ticket to financial security.

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