fat

fat

1. slang Stupid; incompetent. Always used in reference to one's head. Can't you get it into your fat head that I don't want to be a part of your boneheaded scheme?
2. slang Little to no; minimal or nonexistent. A: "Do you think the boss is going to reinstate our year-end bonuses?" B: "Ha, fat chance." The state government just spent a huge amount of money repairing the roads around the state. I don't drive, though, so a fat lot of good that will do me.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

fat

1. mod. great; excellent. (see also the spelling variant phat.) Mary thought the rally was fat, but she left early anyway.
2. mod. well supplied with something; having an overabundance of something. We’re fat with paper, but there’s not a toner cartridge in sight.
3. mod. sexy. You are truly fat, Wendy.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • (as) fat as a beached whale
  • (as) fat as a pig
  • a fat cat
  • a fat lot
  • a fat lot of good
  • a fat lot of good/help/use
  • a fat lot of use
  • as fat as a beached whale
  • baby fat
  • big fat
  • big fat grin
  • chew the fat
  • chew the fat/rag, to
  • chew the rag
  • crack a fat
  • cut a fat hog
  • fat
  • fat and happy
  • fat and sassy
  • fat as a beached whale
  • fat as a pig
  • fat cat
  • fat chance
  • fat city
  • fat farm
  • fat hit the fire
  • fat is in the fire
  • fat is in the fire, the
  • fat lip
  • fat lot
  • fat of the land
  • fat of the land, the
  • fat skrill
  • fat-cat
  • fathead
  • fatheaded
  • fry the fat out of
  • have a fat head
  • it ain't over till/until the fat lady sings
  • it ain't/it's not over till the fat lady sings
  • it isn't over till the fat lady sings
  • it isn't over till/until the fat lady sings
  • it isn't over until the fat lady sings
  • it's not over till/until the fat lady sings
  • kill the fatted calf
  • kill the fatted calf, to
  • laugh and grow fat
  • lip
  • live off the fat of the land
  • live off/on the fat of the land
  • puppy fat
  • run to fat
  • the fat hit the fire
  • the fat is in the fire
  • the fat of the land
  • till the fat lady sings
  • until the fat lady sings
  • what (someone) eats doesn't make (one) fat
  • when the fat lady sings
  • work off
  • work some fat off
References in classic literature
And Three- Legs and all owners of things paid Dog-Tooth and Sea-Lion and Big- Fat their share in money.
"But what of the goats and the corn and the fat roots and the fish- trap?" spoke up Afraid-of-the-Dark, "what of all this?
The Strength of the Strong
While they were in sight of those at the inn, the brothers walked their horses soberly, not caring to make ill matters worse by seeming to run away from Little John, for they could not but think how it would sound in folks' ears when they heard how the brethren of Fountain Abbey scampered away from a strolling friar, like the Ugly One, when the blessed Saint Dunstan loosed his nose from the red-hot tongs where he had held it fast; but when they had crossed the crest of the hill and the inn was lost to sight, quoth the fat Brother to the thin Brother, "Brother Ambrose, had we not better mend our pace?"
So it will not jolt thy fat too much, onward, say I."
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
All this while the little fat musicker was breathing the notes:
The Road to Oz
From this time on no one asked the Cat to stand godmother; but when the winter came and there was nothing to be got outside, the Mouse remembered their provision and said, 'Come, Cat, we will go to our pot of fat which we have stored away; it will taste very good.'
Yellow Fairy Book
"If I do not get the ten fat goats and the other things, they shall at least have a few bones after I am through." And he left the boy to think over the meaning of his all-too-suggestive words.
Jungle Tales of Tarzan
The fat boy, who had been effectually roused by the compression of a portion of his leg between the finger and thumb of Mr.
The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club
Chippy Hackee was not too fat, but he did not want to come; he stayed down below and chuckled.
Original Peter Rabbit Books
Losberne, a surgeon in the neighbourhood, known through a circuit of ten miles round as 'the doctor,' had grown fat, more from good-humour than from good living: and was as kind and hearty, and withal as eccentric an old bachelor, as will be found in five times that space, by any explorer alive.
Oliver Twist Or The Parish Boys Progress
But there, locking up the stores for the night, stood the fat steward.
Robin Hood
"The criminal who now sits before the court licking her paws," resumed the Woggle-Bug, "has long desired to unlawfully eat the fat piglet, which was no bigger than a mouse.
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
No sooner had the wagon stopped than the little fat man turned to Lamp-Wick.
Adventures Of Pinocchio
He had a thick ledger lying open before him, and with the fingers of his right hand inserted between the leaves, and his eyes fixed on a very fat old lady in a mob-cap--evidently the proprietress of the establishment--who was airing herself at the fire, seemed to be only waiting her directions to refer to some entries contained within its rusty clasps.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Two officers appeared at the entrance-door: one, a young fellow, with a feeble, delicate face, who had lately joined the regiment from the Corps of Pages; the other, a plump, elderly officer, with a bracelet on his wrist, and little eyes, lost in fat.
Anna Karenina