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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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My M.B.A. has not been the meal ticket I had hoped.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For much of Pennington's working life, Shakespeare has been his mission and his meal ticket .
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It's amazing what some men will do for a meal ticket .
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It only became a moot point because David was a meal ticket for so many people.
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There were times when he suspected he was just a meal ticket to her.