How to Use fat cat in a Sentence

fat cat

noun
  • The best seats in the theater were reserved for the fat cats.
  • But Bergman’s the sort of lawyer who strikes fear in fat cats’ hearts.
    Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2024
  • The young angler did have a few pounds on the fat cat, but not many.
    Matt Williams, Dallas News, 19 Mar. 2021
  • But the army of fat cats did not come to Virginia Beach simply to save the state.
    Norman J. Ornstein, The New Republic, 31 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • And no big fat cat political donors are leading the charge.
    Brooke Singman, Fox News, 1 June 2018
  • And no big fat cat political donors are leading the charge.
    Brooke Singman, Fox News, 1 June 2018
  • And no big fat cat political donors are leading the charge.
    Brooke Singman, Fox News, 1 June 2018
  • And no big fat cat political donors are leading the charge.
    Brooke Singman, Fox News, 1 June 2018
  • And no big fat cat political donors are leading the charge.
    Brooke Singman, Fox News, 11 May 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

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