Synonyms for meal ticket

Grammar : Noun

Définition of meal ticket

noun source of subsistence

Example sentences :

"No," said the man, eyeing the meal ticket with its twenty-one unpunched holes.
Extract from : « Snow on the Headlight » by Cy Warman

You've been down there, and that goes for a meal ticket with me!
Extract from : « The River and I » by John G. Neihardt

Even you, Kate, used to pass the leather on when Jim pinched one, which was doing your share in buying your meal ticket.
Extract from : « Living Up to Billy » by Elizabeth Cooper

"Bet you five, my opera hat, a good mandolin and a meal ticket on Jim's place against your dress suit," said Petey promptly.
Extract from : « At Good Old Siwash » by George Fitch

He meant to ask for a meal ticket, but the seemingly proper moment never came, and he decided to pay himself that night.
Extract from : « Sister Carrie » by Theodore Dreiser

Waster was Leather-head's meal ticket, dicky knees and all, till he threw a splint.
Extract from : « Bulldog Carney » by W. A. Fraser

Then I thought about my meal ticket and looked worriedly around the room.
Extract from : « The Chameleon Man » by William P. McGivern

At first I used a credit card arranged after the order of a meal ticket.
Extract from : « School Credit for Home Work » by Lewis Raymond Alderman

For he had said frankly that when he received his discharge from the Army he would have to dig up a job to get a meal ticket.
Extract from : « The Pagan Madonna » by Harold MacGrath

I note by the papers that you have served your bit and are now out again digging around for your own meal ticket.
Extract from : « Within Prison Walls » by Thomas Mott Osborne

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