gravy time
n.— «Allies are probably—effective allies; I do not mean just free riders who are just on the gravy time—are the most valuable thing you can have in a war, because it is somebody else getting killed instead of you.» —by United States Senate Executive Sessions of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee , 1976. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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