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Examples
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Joe Lee hasn't gone anywhere, and with the help of Melinda's deception, the Worst Parents in the World have their meal-ticket son back on the leash... literally.
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Yet he owns the horses an 'the stables, an' never does a tap of work, an 'I manage to scratch my meal-ticket an' my clothes.
CHAPTER X 2010
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They say it, in part, because it protects college athletics' tax-free status and tradition of non-compensation for its meal-ticket athletes.
David Berri: Why Cam Newton Should Be Unhappy with His Father David Berri 2010
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They say it, in part, because it protects college athletics' tax-free status and tradition of non-compensation for its meal-ticket athletes.
David Berri: Why Cam Newton Should Be Unhappy with His Father David Berri 2010
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She accompanies her gold-digging friend Morgan (Paula Patton) to a game; Leslie loves the game but Morgan is only interested in landing a player as her meal-ticket (as well as her pass to the row reserved for the spouses of the players).
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But after watching it again, I noticed that Mr. the Plumber was introduced while Lee Greenwood's patriotic meal-ticket, God bless the USA blared over the loudspeakers.
Archive 2009-03-22 SeattleDan 2009
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This woman had found her meal-ticket in a guy who was tall, well-built, attractive, but obviously lacked confidence for one reason or another.
The Crickets Try to Organize Themselves Into Some Raucous Pentameter. Jac Jemc 2009
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The golf industry is in total shock -- its number 1 meal-ticket is now in self-imposed exile.
Guy T. Saperstein: What's Bad for Tiger Ain't Bad for the Rest of Us 2009
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This woman had found her meal-ticket in a guy who was tall, well-built, attractive, but obviously lacked confidence for one reason or another.
The Crickets Try to Organize Themselves Into Some Raucous Pentameter. 2009
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He instead chooses to leave them in America, where taxpayers provide free social services for illegal alien families who have US-born meal-ticket kiddies.
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