fat cat
Example Sentences
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His fat cat industrialist Zsa-Zsa Korda is no underground rebel.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026
Amid this, we follow many lives, including two brothers looking for work, a showgirl, a villainous spy, a conscienceless fat cat and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, labor organizer, feminist and, later, a founder of the ACLU.
From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2021
"It is not a fat cat scheme for people at the top of the business," boss John Roberts told the BBC's Today Programme.
From BBC • Jul. 22, 2020
But together with government documents, the picture they paint of Jones and Williams suggests a leadership that has at times aspired more to the role of fat cat than defender of workers.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 26, 2019
All I had was a claw-picking fat cat napping on my bed, and I could barely keep my room clean.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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