fat and happy

Definitions

1. 1

   Content

   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).

   • 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.
   • Since black people are richer than most poor in third world countries we are fat and happy.
   • 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.
2. 2

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

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

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