meal ticket
饭票,餐票,餐券,饭单
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- : a ticket that entitles the bearer to meals in a specified restaurant, especially when meals purchased in this manner are offered at reduced rates.
- : Informal. someone upon whom one is dependent for one's income or livelihood: selfish children who look upon their father only as a meal ticket.
- : Informal. something, as an object or ability possessed by a person, that is necessary to that person's livelihood: The radio announcer's voice was his meal ticket.
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Older musicians, such as Jo Jones, Sonny Greer, Sammy Price, Russell Procope, and Earle Warren, who had known Schaap as an eccentric teen-ager now welcomed him as a meal ticket.
Farrell issued a ticket to an 18-year-old shipyard worker for speeding and an improper exhaust mechanism, according to the TP.
Yet we keep doing the cleanses, buying the meal replacement bars, and joining Weight Watchers.
Like any exciting meal, Food will leave you smiling and satisfied.
In the mid-afternoon, Ramos and Liu were parked on Tomkins Avenue on a meal break.
One area that would immediately benefit is revenue from ticket sales.
Individual samples may be slightly alkaline, especially after a full meal.
He had got his ticket of admission to the Casino, after arriving yesterday evening; but the Rooms had not pleased him then.
Following the boys, Baptiste entered by the kitchen door to encounter the mother and three daughters preparing the meal.
Hilda suggested that the ticket-clerk should be interrogated, but the aperture of communication with him was shut.
She smiled a smile after this that was one of satisfaction, and at that moment her sisters called that the meal was ready.