How to Use fat cat in a Sentence

fat cat

noun
  • The best seats in the theater were reserved for the fat cats.
  • The young angler did have a few pounds on the fat cat, but not many.
    Matt Williams, Dallas News, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Two fat cats scrambled on the rocks around me like mountain goats.
    Ailsa Ross, Longreads, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Bankers still boil over with rage about him, wincing over his 2009 line about fat cats as if the wounds were fresh.
    Max Abelson, Bloomberg.com, 18 Sep. 2017
  • The world’s most famous fat cat is coming to theaters soon.
    Wilson Chapman, Variety, 3 Aug. 2022
  • See there, them preachers spendin’ all that money, just fat cats ridin’ around.
    Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 21 Jan. 2018
  • The real problem with Britain is not an excess of fat cats but a shortage of cream.
    The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Over the past few years, there have been awards for tallest and ugliest dogs, fattest cats, and now there is a new record for the dog with the longest tongue.
    Sarah Elsesser, ajc, 5 Oct. 2017
  • This is one government fat cat the public is happy to see back at work.
    Fox News, 3 Dec. 2019
  • This is what an actual fat cat that has no muscle tone would look like.
    Fox News, 1 June 2018
  • And no big fat cat political donors are leading the charge.
    Brooke Singman, Fox News, 1 June 2018
  • More monthly and energy bills to bail out their fat cat friends who fund their little.
    cleveland, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Pulled in by the promise of thrills or the guarantee of glamour, readers will stay for the game of survivor(s), and finish the book as satisfied as a fat cat in the Serengeti.
    Washington Post, 11 May 2022
  • There has been music and dancing and marching and a giant inflatable fat cat perched atop a red car.
    Rebecca Nathanson, The New Republic, 14 Dec. 2021
  • This block doesn't have the foot traffic of too many fat cats that can afford it with much regularity.
    Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 27 Sep. 2017
  • The implication: Tax cuts were gravy for shareholders and fat cats, not workers.
    Ken Fisher, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2018
  • Many of Hong Kong’s fat cats would surely resent giving up their weekends there to help the very people who are out making trouble.
    The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
  • But that dynamic does not benefit only the fat cats with deep pockets.
    Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 9 Apr. 2020
  • That led to a period of populist ferment hostile to fat cats, including mass strikes and ultimately the New Deal of the 1930s.
    The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Since that day, Ford has waited for another fat cat to steal her heart, even telling her two grandchildren about her plans to care for an overweight feline.
    Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 2 May 2023
  • God rest ye merry, fat cats: Shedding some of that cumbersome, excess cash is a surefire route to feeling good about yourself.
    Ben Brantley, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2019
  • This isn't Westeros; no one's out here massing troops on opposite sides of a meadow while the fat cats in the biggest tent play an oversized game of Risk and tend to their carbuncles.
    Peter Rubin, WIRED, 20 Aug. 2019
  • That group joined forces with a similar organization, fat cat Fab Lab.
    Christina Oehler, Health.com, 19 May 2020
  • Good management might sound like tame stuff compared with promising to punish the fat cats, as Mr Corbyn does, or sailing off into the great blue yonder, as the Brexiteers would wish.
    The Economist, 5 Apr. 2018
  • His accomplishments–a massive corporate tax cut, a strong stock market–have largely redounded to the benefit of the bankers and fat cats.
    Time, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Speakers addressed the crowd from a Teamsters Local 25 flatbed adorned with an inflatable fat cat, depicted smoking a cigar and holding a moneybag.
    Lucas Phillips, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Such imperial prices dramatize the city’s inequities, but the building that some disdained as a fat cat’s bazaar has proven to be — for better or worse — the most influential construction project in New York.
    Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Bashing the fat cats is far more satisfying than engaging in serious reform.
    The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Not long ago, the system of landlords, family plots of farmland, guilds, workshops, and the national church seemed secure and unchanging, yet it was all being upended by the squalid factory, the city slum, the ballooning fat cat.
    James Robins, The New Republic, 19 Jan. 2023
  • These fat cats spend millions on slick marketing to brainwash you into believing that these sequels will be anything other than a complete disaster.
    Alex Baia thatcher Jensen, The New Yorker, 7 June 2019

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