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fat and happy en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (informal) Content; having one's wants and needs met; often with a connotation of complacent advantage or privilege (as for example with a sinecure or with power of socioeconomic establishment).
   • Like, twenty years ago everyone was fat and happy. The Cold War was over, everyone was at peace, the U.S. was cruising along with a big surplus. 2007, David S. Michaels, Daniel Brenton, Red Moon, →ISBN, page 55:
   • Alternatively, perhaps consumerism is taking its toll, with people just too fat and happy to care. 2013, Joan Johnson-Freese, Space as a Strategic Asset, →ISBN, page 4:
   • The US. in 1954 made up only 6% of the world's population of 2.7 billion, but it owned 60% of its automobiles, 58% of its telephones and similarly vast amounts of breeziness and arrogance. For the first time, we were getting fat and happy. 2001, Frank Deford, The Best of Frank Deford, →ISBN:
   • Since black people are richer than most poor in third world countries we are fat and happy. 2007, Joseph Gwin, Beyond Malcolm, →ISBN, page 59:
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fat, happy.

Forms

Synonyms

fat, dumb and happy · happy