fat as a house

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(as) fat as a house (not comparable)

1. (simile) Very fat; plump; overweight.
   • 2009, Lynne Mitchell, To Touch the Whale, page 74:

     She was fat — fat as a house. My daddy told her not to eat one more thing, and she still got fat.

   • 2011 Danny Baker winning cancer fight Daily Express, 11 May 2011. Accessed 4 May 2019.

     Danny, who has three children, Bonnie, 27, Sonny, 24 and Mancie, 12 with wife Wendy, says the weight loss is no silver lining: “In a couple of years I hope to be bulging at the seams again, fat as a house.

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• Polish: gruby jak beczka (pl)