Cultural Use
Gravy, and its perceived richness, have contributed to its use in several cultural contexts:
- Used as a descriptive noun, gravy indicates that all is well. "Don't worry, we're gravy."
- The idiom gravy train, used to refer to any lucrative endeavor, but in particular such endeavors which capitalize on the success of other people.
- Also used as slang for extra benefits in the idiom "everything else is gravy."
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“A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others, thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least.”
—Jacques Barzun (b. 1907)
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