Idiom
licence to print money
Meaning
A means of generating a large income with little effort.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“That popular new app is a licence to print money.”
“Since the company owns the only bridge in the city, the toll fees are essentially a licence to print money.”
“The corporation secured an exclusive government contract for the software, effectively granting them a licence to print money for the next decade.”
Examples
simple
“That popular new app is a licence to print money.”
contextual
“Since the company owns the only bridge in the city, the toll fees are essentially a licence to print money.”
complex
“The corporation secured an exclusive government contract for the software, effectively granting them a licence to print money for the next decade.”
Origin
Often attributed to Lew Grade, and notably used by Roy Thompson of Scottish Television around 1956.
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