| 词汇 | gravy |
| 释义 | gravy noun[ U ] uk /ˈɡreɪ.vi/ us /ˈɡreɪ.vi/ a sauce made with meat juices and flour, served with meat and vegetables肉汁 Sauces, dressings, dips & pickles aioli aji Alfredo apple sauce arrowroot custard custard powder dashi deglaze demi-glace mirin miso molasses Mornay mousseline sambal scalloped secret sauce shoyu soubise gravy | American Dictionarygravy noun[ U ] us/ˈɡreɪ·vi/ gravynoun[U] (FOOD)a sauce made from meat juices, often mixed with flour gravynoun[U] (EXTRA)infml something extra that you welcome having and often did not expect to get: This business took care of all our expenses, and the revenue from other ads and subscriptions was gravy. gravy | Business Englishgravy noun[ U ] informaluk /ˈɡreɪvi/us money that you receive without much effort: The company directors will mop up most of the gravy. a situation in which it is easy to make money or to enjoy a comfortable life without much effort: I can forget about the hard times because it's all been gravy for three years now. Examples of gravygravy The 'fiscal' dividend alone would justify the policy of environmental taxation and the environmental benefits, whatever their magnitude, would be 'gravy'. These rolls were perhaps used as a supplementary spoon to sop up sauces and gravies. Arrange them on a dish, and pour round them either a good gravy or hot tomato sauce. People who say that this institution is just a 'gravy train' are wrong. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English It must not be allowed to become a gravy train. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Only yesterday, we heard that there have been about £3 billion-worth of inefficiencies/fraud and that the gravy train is speeding out of control. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 On top of that there is fraud—about £7 billion of it—or what is known as the "gravy train". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is an obscenity and an example of the way in which the gravy-train atmosphere has permeated the electricity and gas industries since privatisation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 For many, that sustains a gravy train that they have been riding all their lives. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are reassuring people that it will not be a political gravy train. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Those least able to pay are to be clobbered to benefit those who are already on the gravy train. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Those involved in the redundancy in the metropolitan counties are not on a gravy train. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Those around him also are on the gravy train. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They did just that, and told him that he was to join the frozen food gravy train. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is something in what those who refer to "a gravy train" say. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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