fat cat
Example Sentences
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But the smooth Lamarzelle is presented as just enough of a calculating fat cat that we can’t help but root for Eve’s success.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2022
But she’s practical; she’ll do what it takes to survive in a world of gross inequality, where Hades is an industrial fat cat and artists and workers are largely servile.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2022
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
“And you say this fat cat travlin around with his momma?”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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