Meaning of fat cat | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A rich person who contributes to a political campaign.
   slang
2. Any affluent person who is perceived to have profited from the labor of others; and/or not to care about those of lesser means.
   derogatory, slang
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fat, cat.

Equivalents

Examples

“A staggering 57% of American workers believe there is a very real chance they will be unemployed in the next 5 to 7 years. But what does that matter to a bloated millionaire fat-cat like you?”

“For entirely self-serving reasons, ministers and civil servants never dispelled the public belief that uncaring 'fat cat' privateers or foreign state railways were in control, ramping up fares and creaming off profits which either enriched shareholders or subsidised European rail fares. DfT left train operators to 'take the heat' - which they dutifully did, fearful of speaking up and 'biting the hand that feeds'.”

“In America, where we moralize our money and monetize our morals, fat cats who go bust tend to be viewed as cautionary figures, singular exemplars of malfeasance, not routine casualties of the fickle system that exalted them in the first place.”

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