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What is a gravy train?

What is a gravy train? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (idiomatic) An occupation or any lucrative endeavor that generates considerable income whilst requiring little effort and carrying little risk.
  2. (politics) A gorging on luxuries, since someone else foots the bill.
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Be you a public representative at local or national level, the certainty is that you are aboard a financially rewarding gravy train.
They gorge themselves on a gravy train fuelled by our taxes and act as puppets for secret, undemocratic organisations over which we have no control.
But it's good to see that those stalwart defenders of the public purse, our councillors, are part of that gravy train.
More people are interested in getting on the gravy train than on stopping the gravy train.
Millions of pounds are pouring into this ever-growing bureaucratic gravy train and it is now an embarrassment to the Government.
Let them figure out how to keep the hotheads from spoiling the gravy train.

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