0 a sauce made with meat juices and flour, served with meat and vegetables
1 a sauce made from meat juices, often mixed with flour
2 something extra that you welcome having and often did not expect to get:
4 a situation in which it is easy to make money or to enjoy a comfortable life without much effort:
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.
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salsa para carne, salsa de carne, jugo de la carne…
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molho feito com caldo de carne…
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et suyu, et suyu sosu…
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