free lunch

What we want to do is invest in the best players in the world if we can, rather than spend it on, I'm afraid, free lunches.

Plenty at the club noted within the reaction to this week's staff news at United that not many employers offer staff the free lunches that are being taken away.

Sportswriters would come together in Culver City lured by a free lunch to nominate and vote for players.

Just outside, however, their colleagues — joined by about a dozen elected officials — warned that there is no such thing as a free lunch.

They called it a "free lunch" because normally to get higher returns, you have to take on higher risk.