MEAL TICKET


Meaning of MEAL TICKET in English

also meal-ticket

If you say that something or someone is a meal ticket , you mean that they provide a person with money or a lifestyle which they would not otherwise have.

His chosen field was unlikely to be a meal ticket for life...

I don’t intend to be a meal-ticket for anyone.

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