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{{also|fatcat|fat-cat}}
==English==
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===Alternative forms===
* {{alter|en|fatcat|fat-cat}}

===Etymology===
The phrase was first used in the 1920s in the United States to describe rich political donors.<ref>{{cite-book|year=1928|quotee={{w|Frank Kent|F. R. Kent}}|title=Movers and Shakers: A Chronology of Words that Shaped Our Age|year_published=2006|author=John Ayto|chapter=Fat Cat|publisher=Oxford University Press US|page=64|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=XXQqCAWcZ8cC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Movers+and+Shakers:+A+Chronology+of+Words+that+Shaped+Our+Age&hl=es&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi_hd-r8svsAhVCcBQKHU3pCa0Q6AEwAHoECAAQAg#v=onepage&q=fat%20cat&f=false|passage=These capitalists have what the organization needs—money to finance the campaign. Such men are known in political circles as ‘Fat Cats’.}}</ref>
By the middle of the 20th century, the term was being applied more widely to any wealthy individual.

===Pronunciation===
* {{audio|en|En-au-fat cat.ogg|a=AU}}

===Noun===
{{en-noun}}

# {{lb|en|slang|originally}} A [[rich]] person who contributes to a political campaign.
#: {{syn|en|angel|big money man}}
#: {{rfquote-sense|en}}
# {{lb|en|slang|derogatory}} Any [[affluent]] person who is perceived to have profited from the [[labor]] of others; and/or not to care about those of lesser means.
#* {{quote-av|en|year=1997|medium=motion picture|title=The Game|writer=w:John Brancato and Michael Ferris|actor=Daniel Schorr|passage=A staggering 57% of American workers believe there is a very real chance they will be unemployed in the next 5 to 7 years. But what does that matter to a bloated millionaire '''fat-cat''' like you?}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=2020 September 23|author=Nigel Harris|title=Comment: We MUST seize the moment|journal=Rail|page=3|text=For entirely self-serving reasons, ministers and civil servants never dispelled the public belief that uncaring ''''fat cat'''' privateers or foreign state railways were in control, ramping up fares and creaming off profits which either enriched shareholders or subsidised European rail fares. DfT left train operators to 'take the heat' - which they dutifully did, fearful of speaking up and 'biting the hand that feeds'.}}
#* {{quote-web|en|work=New York Times|title=The Cautionary Tale of Adam Neumann and WeWork|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/23/books/review/billion-dollar-loser-adam-neumann-wework-reeves-wiedeman.html|author=Walter Kirn|date=2020-10-23|passage=In America, where we moralize our money and monetize our morals, '''fat cats''' who go bust tend to be viewed as cautionary figures, singular exemplars of malfeasance, not routine casualties of the fickle system that exalted them in the first place.}}
# {{&lit|en|fat|cat}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|rich person who contributes to a political campaign}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|肥貓|tr=féi māo}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|pohatta}}
* Italian: {{t|it|pesce grosso|m}}
* Portuguese: {{t|pt|cachorro grande}}, {{t+|pt|peixe grande}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|pez gordo|m}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|affluent person who is perceived to have profited from the labour of others}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t-needed|cmn}}
* Czech: {{t|cs|zazobanec|m}}, {{t+|cs|papaláš|m}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|pohatta}}, {{t+|fi|kiho}}, {{t+|fi|porho}}
* German: {{t+|de|Bonze|m}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|sfruttatore|m}}, {{t+|it|profittatore|m}}
* Kurdish:
*: Northern Kurdish: {{t+|kmr|kedxwer}}
{{trans-bottom}}

===References===
<references/>

{{cln|en|rhyming phrases}}
{{C|en|Corruption|People|Wealth}}

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