Jack Sprat
No-fat fellow
Jack Sprat is a figure from a nursery rhyme who "could eat no fat" while his wife "could eat no lean"—together they "licked the platter clean." The name sometimes describes a thin person, or more broadly, a couple whose opposite traits complement each other: They're a real Jack Sprat situation—she handles the finances, he handles the social calendar.
- proverbTraditional saying expressing truth
- eatingIngesting sustenance
- hungerNeed for nourishment
- leanLacking fat; incline
- fatAdipose tissue
meat and potatoes · complementarity · opposites attract · odd couple · diet · yin and yang · lean meat · nursery rhyme · oral tradition · duality · platter · caricature · Mother Goose · cooperation · rhyme schemes · Mary Had a Little Lamb · children's literature · food preferences
- nursery rhymeslullabies, cradle songs, Old Mother Hubbard, nursery rhymes, Rock-a-Bye Baby
- jacks
Jack Spratglutton
Excessive, voracious eater
gourmand · Henry VIII · Falstaff · epicure · overeater
Jack SpratOld King Cole
Merry nursery rhyme sovereign