fat and happy

fat and happy (comparative more fat and happy, superlative most fat and happy)

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).

   Synonym: fat, dumb and happy

   • 2001, Frank Deford, The Best of Frank Deford, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2007, Joseph Gwin, Beyond Malcolm, →ISBN, page 59:

     Since black people are richer than most poor in third world countries we are fat and happy.

   • 2007, David S. Michaels, Daniel Brenton, Red Moon, →ISBN, page 55:

     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.

   • 2013, Joan Johnson-Freese, Space as a Strategic Asset, →ISBN, page 4:

     Alternatively, perhaps consumerism is taking its toll, with people just too fat and happy to care.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fat,‎ happy.

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