gravy Betydning & definition

Eksempler på gravy

• 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.

• It must not be allowed to become a gravy train.

• 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.

• On top of that there is fraud—about £7 billion of it—or what is known as the "gravy train".

• 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.