life of ease

life of ease
as in
bed of roses
Synonyms
clover · comfort · lap of luxury · luxury · milk and honey · ...
gravy train
life of Riley
primrose path
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gravy train
noun
Synonyms of gravy train
: a much exploited source of easy money
also : GRAVY sense 2a


Synonyms
bonus
cumshaw
dividend
donative
extra
gratuity
gravy
lagniappe
perk
perquisite
throw-in
tip

Example Sentences
They're trying to get on board the gravy train.
the new tax law offers a real gravy train to certain categories of investors
Recent Examples on the Web
Humans, Corrigan said, are their gravy train.
—Billy Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Dec. 2022
At some point the gravy train is going to stop.
—Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Oct. 2022
How long can this gravy train last?
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 14 Dec. 2021
Unfortunately, the gravy train is over.
—Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2020
Most minor leaguers still toil for substandard wages under conditions that seem unfathomable given the gravy train that is pretty much everything else Major League Baseball touches.
—Mitchell Nathanson, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2022
Kevin’s gravy train will end soon which probably explains the timing of these hurtful statements...
—Aim;e Lutkin, ELLE, 7 Aug. 2022
Moore’s real threat is to partisan election lawfare and the gravy train that the Elias Law Group, 70 attorneys strong, is riding.
—David B. Rivkin Jr. And Jason Snead, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2022
New competition—particularly from Disney+, but also from Amazon and HBOMax—had finally started to cut into the endless gravy train.
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 3 June 2022

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Land of milk and honey is an expression that refers to a place where there is plenty of food and money and life is very easy123. It is often used to describe the expectation of a better life that may not match reality4. It also has a religious origin as the name of the land that God promised and gave to Abraham and his descendants in the Hebrew Bible5.
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