person of size

person of size

A fat or obese person. It has been airlines' policy for a number of years to make persons of size purchase two seats on every flight they take.
See also: of, person, size
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • tub of guts
  • gutbucket
  • gut-bucket
  • (as) fat as a pig
  • fat as a pig
  • have a weight problem
  • (as) fat as a beached whale
  • as fat as a beached whale
References in periodicals archive
This is pure hatred from people based on you solely existing as a person of size.
Put a person of size in the sexiest role in the play.
It remains so when any distinguished "person of size" hands in his or her XXL dinner pail.
The author, Rebecca Jane Weinstein, a person of size herself, understands the struggles that so many experience living in a world with a "war on fat." Ms.
I also wanted to see if I could employ different tactics to get to actually like myself as a fat person, or "person of size" as the Americans like to delicately put it.