milch cow:
(plural: ‘milch cows‘; for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
any person (or a source) from whom it is easy to get a continuous supply of money, other favours or profit, like one gets an easy and continuous supply of milk from a dairy cow,
a milch cow (a boy from whom others get easy money)
Thomas believes that he, for being a middle class person, has been treated like a milch cow by the businesses, the government and the people of other classes and his money has been squeezed out of him like milk out of a cow.
His relatives think Matthew is a milch cow because he gives away money easily, but mark my words, he gets back many times more than he’s given away from them in near future.
The head of the World Bank recently stated that countries should not take the bank for a milch cow and that the countries who had cleared their previous dues are the ones that would get fresh loans.
