what does the phrase "ride the gravy train" mean?

Answer 1

During the Great Depression, the 'gravy train' was a slang expression of hobos and vagabonds for the car on a train that held the food (storage, not the dining car)

If a hobo were to jump aboard that car, his life became much easier at that point since he now had no need to search out food or work and he was said to be "riding the gravy train".

The expression in present use means that one has achieved a position that allows them a comfortable existence with little work involved.

Answer 2

Experience excessive ease, success, or profit, especially undeservedly. For example, Now that his brother is paying all his bills, Jim is riding the gravy train. The word gravy has long meant "easy profits," and the term is believed to come from 19th-century railroad slang, although the earliest recorded use dates from the early 1900s. W.C. Handy used it in one of his famous blues songs written in 1914, in which he bemoans falling off the gravy train.



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Answer 3

Riding the gravy train is similar conceptually to living on easy street.

Answer 4

The Bible has had it right for millenniums. “A live dog is better off than a dead lion. For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten.” (Ecclesiastes 9:4, 5) Does that mean there is absolutely no hope for the dead? Jesus Christ preach about resurrection to life on a restored paradise earth. His Jewish follower Martha, whose brother, Lazarus, had just died, believed in the resurrection, for she said of Lazarus: “I know he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.” (John 11:24) To this, Jesus answered: “I am the resurrection and the life. He that exercises faith in me, even though he dies, will come to life; and everyone that is living and exercises faith in me will never die at all. Do you believe this?” (John 11:25, 26) Earlier, he had said: “Do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who did good things to a resurrection of life, those who practiced vile things to a resurrection of judgment.” John 5:28, 29; Luke 23:43. As you can see there will be a resurrection of both the righteous. and the unrighteous. Please do further research in you Bible to get a better understanding.

Answer 5

The 'gravy train' is the good stuff...everything good in life...so when you are riding it..you are taking advantage of all those opportunities.

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Answer 6

It means to personally benefit from the hard work of others.

Answer 7

live it up - usually on money that you either did not earn or did not expect. Sometimes it is people who live off of others (wealth by inheritance)