In some way, the education of every college student in the country is financed from the public trough.

I think, rather, our bloated government bureaucracies are so deep in the public trough, they can only cry out for more taxes!

Typically, they are investors feeding at the public trough.

They say it would allow private real estate developers to gorge at the public trough.

In other cases, they're stealing directly from the public trough.

To bring one's friends to the public trough is politics as usual.

A year ago, bank managers could think of nothing but sidling up to the public trough to seek money.

Even so, the teams will get a pretty good feeding at the public trough.

But history shows that a tightly run Olympics need not be glued to the public trough.

(The Newark park cost $29 million, nearly all of it from the public trough.)