Gravy Boat
What is the orgin of the phrase’Getting on the Gravy Train’?
I understand the meaning of the phrase,but why is it not for example’ sauce train’ or ‘gravy boat’ ??
Any ideas on who first used the expression,and is it used in places other than the UK ??
Thank you………
“To ride the gravy train” means to secure an ongoing situation that provides good pay or other benefits with little labor or trouble, the equivalent of “living on Easy Street.” It may be that the phrase originated among hoboes and other vagabonds who hopped trains as a way of life and for whom “gravy train” would be a likely metaphor for an easy existence. In any case, “gravy train” seems to have first appeared in the late 19th century. Michael Quinion of World Wide Words (www.worldwidewords.org) has uncovered an example in an 1895 Pennsylvania newspaper, the earliest citation to date
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