fat and happy

Well-fed and pleased

Fat and happy describes a state of comfortable contentment, often with the implication of complacency.

Someone fat and happy has their needs met and feels no urgency to change or improve: The company got fat and happy and stopped innovating.

The phrase can be purely positive—satisfied and thriving—or carry a warning that comfort breeds laziness.

Related

smug · content · sitting pretty · feasting · self-satisfied · pleased · cushy · comfortable · creature comforts · easy street · gluttonous · complacent · decadence · pampered · lap of luxury · satiated · opulence · good life

Categories
Opposites
contentment and complacency

fat and happyhungry

Wanting to eat

dissatisfied · lean and mean · restless · discontented · ambitious

physical/material condition

fat and happystarving

Suffering extreme hunger

deprived · impoverished · wanting · needy · scraping by

competitive drive

fat and happyhungry

Wanting to eat

driven · scrappy · aggressive · motivated · on the prowl

Family

happy, fats, fatty, fatten, fattened, fattening, fatness, fatted, fatter

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G