fat and happy
English
Adjective
fat and happy (comparative more fat and happy, superlative most fat and happy)
- Content; having one's wants and needs met.
- 2001, Frank Deford, The Best of Frank Deford, →ISBN:
- The US. in 1954 made up only 6% of the world's population of 2.7 billion, but it owned 60% of its automobiles, 58% of its telephones and similarly vast amounts of breeziness and arrogance. For the first time, we were getting fat and happy.
- 2007, Joseph Gwin, Beyond Malcolm, →ISBN, page 59:
- Since black people are richer than most poor in third world countries we are fat and happy.
- 2007, David S. Michaels & Daniel Brenton, Red Moon, →ISBN, page 55:
- Like, twenty years ago everyone was fat and happy. The Cold War was over, everyone was at peace, the U.S. was cruising along with a big surplus.
- 2013, Joan Johnson-Freese, Space as a Strategic Asset, →ISBN, page 4:
- Alternatively, perhaps consumerism is taking its toll, with people just too fat and happy to care.
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- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see fat, happy.