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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