fat cats
Rich and powerful
Fat cats are wealthy, powerful people, especially those seen as using their money and influence for self-serving ends.
The term often targets corporate executives, political donors, or financiers perceived as out of touch with ordinary people: Wall Street fat cats got bailouts while workers lost their homes.
The image suggests someone grown sleek and comfortable from excess.
- bigwigsInfluential, powerful people
- big shotsInfluential, powerful people
- tycoonsPowerful business leaders
- mogulsBumps or bigwigs
- oligarchsWealthy few who govern
kingfish · magnates · executives · corner office · nobs · cronies · honchos · aristocrats · kickbacks · moneybags · filthy rich · old money · plutocrats · capitalists · top dogs · barons · profiteers · pork barrel
- eliteselites, plutocrats, oligarchs, aristocrats, blue bloods
- power playerspower brokers, insiders, dealmakers, influencers, kingmakers
- powerhousestitans, giants, juggernauts, heavyweights, behemoths
fat catsthe poor
paupers · wage slaves · have-nots · ordinary people · working stiffs
fat catsnobodies
Unimportant, unknown persons
small fry · underdogs · little people · ordinary people · rank and file
fat catsthe working class
Laborers earning wages
victims · salt of the earth · blue-collar workers · common folk · plebeians