| Fat is used to express someone's weight but it can also show their wealth. So if you get fat you could put on weight or you could get rich. Some words like stout or plump don't have negative connotations but others like obese or flabby are considered impolite. |
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1. You mustn't say Susan is fat, just a little plumb.
2. 40% of adults in the USA are obese.
3. After I drank three bottles of beer I felt really bloated.
4. If you keep drinking so much beer you will end up potbellied.
5. Charles Dickens' Mr. Pickwick was a stout gentleman.
6. Santa Claus is a jolly, roly-poly man.
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| Idioms
7. They hadn't seen each other since college so they spent the whole evening chewing the fat.
8. My son was so overweight I sent him to the fat farm in the country for a month.
9. Since Jack became a merchant banker all his friends have been fat cats.
10. You have a fat chance of passing your exam if you never study.
11. You shouldn't have said that! Now the fat is really in the fire!
12. Bill is living in a ten room flat in Shanghai. He is living off the fat of the land.
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