meal ticket

常见例句

He gave me a meal ticket this noon.
今天中午他给了我一张餐券。
Like most people in his village, growing tobacco provides the family’s meal ticket.
同村里大多数人一样，李彦博的家里也是靠种烟草维生。
We were their meal ticket, and people offered a lot of money to Amerasians willing to claim them as mothers and grandparents and siblings.
我们就是他们的饭票，人们出很多钱，希望美亚混血儿能认他们为母亲或祖父母或兄弟姐妹。

American Locker apparently has no patent protection for its meal ticket -- the virtually indestructible plastic postal cluster boxes for housing developments and apartments.
FORBES: Indestructible
And the Orlando Magic, already offering the seventh-lowest ticket prices in the league, are trying to appeal to fans appetites (and wallets) by serving up an all-you-can-eat meal plan for ticket holders.
FORBES: Magazine Article
He also made the political blunder, in the special election, of giving away coupons for a free chicken meal to voters who presented their voting-ticket stubs.
ECONOMIST: California politics