Sentences with phrase «former meal ticket»
BASKETBALI — Johnny Castellani, brassy young (32) coach who parlayed Elgin Baylor's ability into 49 - 9 record in two seasons at Seattle but resigned when NCAA cracked down on Chiefs for recruiting violations, will join up with his former meal ticket as coach of Minneapolis Lakers.
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The press are not solely to blame for this, however; Seamus Kelly, a former professional with Cardiff City and now an academic at University College Dublin, argues that pushy parents are also «a big problem, putting pressure on their «meal ticket» to money / stardom».
Carole Lombard, as a designing manicurist, and Fred MacMurray, as the penniless playboy the former mistakes for her meal ticket, are both wonderful, but there's something odd about the tone of the picture, evidenced by the fact that our sadness for Ralph Bellamy, Lombard's unrequited suitor, outweighs our happiness for Lombard and MacMurray at the close.