Fat City

or fat city

noun

, Slang.

1. an easy and prosperous condition or circumstance:

   With a new house and a better-paying job, she's in Fat City.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Fat City¹

First recorded in 1960–65

Idioms and Phrases

Also, Fat City . A condition or circumstance marked by considerable prosperity or having a superior advantage. For example, With that new job she'll be in fat city . [ Slang ; 1960s] Also see easy street .

Example Sentences

Fred and I developed a relationship; he wanted me to try out for a part in a movie called “Fat City.”

From Los Angeles Times

Clark: After “Fat City,” I was batting zeros for a year.

From Los Angeles Times

We’re in the early ’70s, so Gordita inevitably suggests a kind of Fat City too, ripe for the plundering of rapacious real estate combines.

From Los Angeles Times

And wouldn’t animals be in fat city with all the roaches named Mitch McConnell bought by Democrats?

From Washington Post

The valley has made notable appearances in literature: in the fiction of John Steinbeck, the essays of Joan Didion, as well as Leonard Gardner‘s 1969 boxing novel “Fat City,” set in Stockton, which later inspired a movie directed by John Huston.

From Los Angeles Times