Meaning of fat lot | Babel Free

Definitions

Little or nothing.

informal, sarcastic, uncountable

Examples

“You're replacing a dead battery with another dead one! Fat lot of good that'll do you!”

“"No, sir, nor to me. I am poor, but I have never ill-used my gift." "A fat lot of use the gift is, then!" said the visitor, rising from his chair.”

“"Well, there's your friend Silent Simon, and all the police—" / "A fat lot of good they are!" said Ned.”

“"I never asked you to get that drug," he said. "Not in so many words," she said. "What do you mean by that?" "Well, a fat lot of fun we were going to have without it."”

“They can't launder fast enough, so what do you do with it? Where do you put it? You hide it in somebody else's place; somebody who han't got a clue what's going on and couldn't do a fat lot about it if they did.”

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