Fat

The fat man had problems going through the door.

The fattest pig should yield the most meat.

1932, New Orleans (La.) Board of Health, Vox Sanitatis While Hennessey is pouring the milk, the fat guy with the big pot-belly, will come over and write a lot of junk in his little book.

[…] Ruth‐ellen Stark and Elizabeth Ryan are about ten times fatter, but even they can't compare to Bruce…”

And there he stood, as uncouth as ever, naked as the day he was born, but fatter and chinnier and even more self-satisfied […]

Because, really, who would like the fat girl? Sebastian said I was crazy for thinking that.

The fat wallets of the men from the city brought joy to the peddlers.

The thickest salmon, the curdiest trout, the fattest partridge, and the most tender woodcock smoked on his board, and, rumor said, cooked with a delicacy that more pretentious houses could not rival.

So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

Make the heart of this people fat,[…]

1855 July 21, Ralph Waldo Emerson, letter to Walter Whitman making our western wits fat & mean

a fat soil; a fat pasture

Land was fatter, soil was rich, hands were many

a fat benefice; a fat office;  a fat job

now parson of Troston, a fat living in Suffolk

, "Why Christ's Doctrine was Rejected" persons grown fat and wealthy by a long and successful imposture

a fat take; a fat page

Hitting a thin shot from a fairway bunker is more productive than hitting a fat shot.

He is what the theatre calls a “fat” role — a man suddenly confronted by a terrible duty. He is called upon to revenge the murder of his father and to right a wrong against the state.

He seeks a fat role in a hit show, lest he diminish his market value.

Joe Hirakawa, formerly of the Seattle Civic Repertory Theatre, was a waterfront peddler in “Madame Butterfly” and had a fat role in “Beauty Parlor,” an indie.

1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure I'd've liked to hang around but the guys were in a fat hurry.

a fat pointer

This isn't a place to talk about “hitting the decks” and making “fat beats”—you're not selling to an industry peer.

Mammals that hibernate have plenty of fat to keep them warm during the winter.

Ask the butcher for a few pounds of fat for our greens.

Dietary fat is not the evil that it was once misapprehended to be; carbs are increasingly recognized as a bigger driver of atherosclerosis via chronic insulin resistance and the vascular processes that cascade from it.

In fact, the fats that are most stable and least likely to oxidize with heat are the highly saturated fats we've long been told to avoid—lard, tallow, butter, and coconut and palm oils.

We need to trim the fat in this company

I saw Daniel crack a fat.

to live on the fat of the land

Prefer military, bodybuilders, jocks. No smokers or fats please.

Before riding over to the fats we'll have a look about us.

kill the fatted calf

“On this one hole, Donald hits his second and fats it into the water,” Faxon remembers. “But he quickly says to me, ‘Hey, throw me another ball; they weren’t looking.’ So I do. But he fats that one into the water, too. So he drives up and drops where he should’ve dropped the first time and hits it on the green.”

And the floores ſhall bee full of wheate, and the fats ſhall ouerflowe with wine and oyle.

In 1431 New College purchases brewing vessels, under the names of a mash fat, for 6s. 10d., a wort fat for 2s., a 'Gilleding' tub for 2s. 6d., and two tunning barrels at 8d. each, a leaden boiler for 24s., another for 12s., and a great copper beer pot for 13s. 4d.

I took my revenge on this ‘fat’, by making him as fatuitous as I possibly could.

Ursula was amazed and indignant at the way he made small-talk; he was adept as any fat in Christendom.