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

So there are actually 5,011,589 owners of NFL franchises; however, only 31 are fat cat magnates.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2018

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