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fat cat

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fat cat
Fig. someone who is ostentatiously and smugly wealthy. I like to watch the fat cats go by in their BMWs. I'm no fat cat. I can't even pay my normal bills!
See also: cat, fat


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It's the equivalent of a major Lotto win for these fat cats - except they get to enjoy the bonanza year after year.
I'm sure that in the end the truth will come out and fat cat or not Mr Ainsworth should not have made people wait to see his expenses but then again he shouldn't have voted against MPs expenses being released under the Freedom of Information Act, but he did.
Remember the fat cats responsible for the current crisis were private sector bosses, and it is they who should pay for the problems they have caused.
 
 
 
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