fat catnoun [ C often plural ]
uk/ˌfæt ˈkæt/us/ˌfæt ˈkæt/disapprovingsomeone who has a lot of money, especially someone in charge of a company who has the power to increase their own pay:
The report criticized boardroom fat cats who award themselves huge pay increases.
fat cat bosses/directors
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Important people and describing important people
- august
- baron
- be the cat's whiskers idiom
- big fish/gun/noise/shot/wheel idiom
- big hitter
- guest of honour
- high up
- high-level
- high-powered
- high-ranking
- honcho
- kingpin
- mogul
- of the moment idiom
- personage
- superior
- superiority
- the big boys
- the bigger they are, the harder they fall idiom
- the grand old man of sth idiom
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