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"sense": "dish for gravy",
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"ref": "1946, The Magazine of Wall Street and Business Analyst",
"text": "Not only have suggestions for their elimination evoked a great hue and cry of protest, but other pressure groups are plugging diligently in an effort to get aboard the \"gravy boat.\"",
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"ref": "1949, United States. Congress, Congressional Record",
"text": "Everybody had climbed aboard the \"gravy boat”—except the landlord; and he wanted to get in, too.",
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"ref": "1963, New Zealand. Parliament, Parliamentary Debates - Volume 332, page 2086",
"text": "Through drawing attention to that, many organisations which had never previously put in an application for assistance had tried to get on the gravy boat.",
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"ref": "2011, Albino Barrera, Market Complicity and Christian Ethics, page 154",
"text": "This herd behavior in not wanting to miss the gravy boat led to a collective lowering of standards that ended with the 2008 financial implosion.",
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"A source of easily obtained money or benefits."
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"word": "Sauciere"
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"sense": "dish for gravy",
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"word": "bátlaga ílát"
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"sense": "dish for gravy",
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"word": "salsiera"
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"sense": "dish for gravy",
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"sense": "dish for gravy",
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"sense": "dish for gravy",
"word": "sosluk"
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