steady ticket
n.— «I worked day labor for quite some time before I realized how “tied” you end up being to that dead-end…I mean, you get paid every day, but if you wanna keep getting paid, you gotta come back every day. If you’re sick and miss a day, your steady ticket goes to someone else.» —“Re: Industry in trouble stats” by Bradly E. Peterson Usenet: rec.arts.comics.misc June 6, 1998. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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