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license to print money
n. (alternative spelling of licence to print money from=US English)
Usage examples of "license to print money".
Since the place seemed to have a license to print money, they said, they might as well actually do it there and save on freight.
For the LA media the Willowbrook story was like a temporary license to print money.
If nothing else, we've proved that sending six people hundreds of millions of miles to a hostile planet is like a license to print money.