gravy train

1. 1.

   income obtained with a minimum of effort

   Synonymseasy money

   Broaderincome

Questions about gravy train

What does gravy train mean?

gravy train means "income obtained with a minimum of effort".

What is another word for gravy train?

Close synonyms include easy money. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gravy train a common word?

gravy train is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.