"welfare Cadillac" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Audio: En-au-welfare Cadillac.ogg Forms: welfare Cadillacs [plural]
Etymology: The imagery is of a person arriving at a welfare office in a Cadillac automobile (an expensive car) to pick up a welfare payment. The implication is that the person does not need the benefit, or that the benefits are too generous. Head templates: {{en-noun}} welfare Cadillac (plural welfare Cadillacs)
  1. (US, idiomatic) The case of a person or group receiving public benefits, although the benefits are not actually needed by the recipient or are obtained by fraud. Tags: US, idiomatic Related terms: welfare bum, welfare parasite, welfare queen
    Sense id: en-welfare_Cadillac-en-noun-CqSyMR18 Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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