a beached whale

a beached whale

offensive slang An extremely large or obese person. I really need to start exercising again. I've turned into a beached whale!
See also: beach, whale
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • as fat as a beached whale
  • beach
  • (as) fat as a beached whale
  • fat as a beached whale
  • blimp
  • blimp out
  • African
  • whale
  • whale of a time
  • a whale of a (good) time
References in periodicals archive
"We heard from some locals that there was a beached whale at Cheynes Beach."
Great white sharks circle huge whale as they wait to pounce on their prey; The great white sharks wait to swoop on a beached fin whale in the Cheynes Beach, Albany in Western Australia in the picture which won an award at Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year's ceremony
RESCUE workers battling to save a beached whale had to abadon their efforts after it was washed on to rocks and heavy seas made the operation too difficult.
Mission impossible; STRANDED SAD END AFTER WHALE WASHES UP ON BEACH Minke dies following a desperate rescue bid in freezing sea
FEARS were growing for a beached whale last night as locals toiled in vain to rescue him.
Fears mount for beached whale
Residents of a western Alaskan fishing village had good reason to groan, "I feel like a beached whale." It seems that after finding a dead adult beluga on the shore, they harvested the skin and pink blubber in its tail, refrigerated it, and later ate it raw Two days after the whale was found, a physician reported three suspected cases of food-borne botulism.
A whale of an outbreak. (Indications)
A BEACHED whale was blown up in front of horrified children yesterday after rescuers failed to get it back into deep water.
Whale doomed to die; Gory end on kids' beach