"Do you want my old friend to continue to be your meal ticket?"

"The Barnesandnoble.com's of the world are going to be our meal ticket for some time to come," he said.

But on the other hand he was fighting for his meal ticket.

It's amazing what some men will do for a meal ticket.

They live in fear of their meal tickets walking out on them for someone bigger and better.

That would become young Sidney's meal ticket into show business.

To the mother, the child is a guaranteed annual meal ticket.

That one show could be a meal ticket for a year or two.

The puppet he made was meant to be his meal ticket.

But God help all of us and our meal tickets if the audiences could see behind the scenes.