"a fat lot" meaning in English

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          "text": "You're replacing a dead battery with another dead one! A fat lot of good that'll do you!",
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          "text": "\"No, sir, nor to me. I am poor, but I have never ill-used my gift.\" \"A fat lot of use the gift is, then!\" said the visitor, rising from his chair.",
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          "text": "\"I never asked you to get that drug,\" he said.\n\"Not in so many words,\" she said.\n\"What do you mean by that?\"\n\"Well, a fat lot of fun we were going to have without it.\"",
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          "text": "They can't launder fast enough, so what do you do with it? Where do you put it? You hide it in somebody else's place; somebody who han't got a clue what's going on and couldn't do a fat lot about it if they did.",
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        "Little or nothing."
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        "(informal, sarcastic, chiefly in the possessive) Little or nothing."
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