"fat and happy" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "more fat and happy",
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    },
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      "form": "most fat and happy",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "2001, Frank Deford, The Best of Frank Deford",
          "text": "The US. in 1954 made up only 6% of the world's population of 2.7 billion, but it owned 60% of its automobiles, 58% of its telephones and similarly vast amounts of breeziness and arrogance. For the first time, we were getting fat and happy.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Joseph Gwin, Beyond Malcolm, page 59",
          "text": "Since black people are richer than most poor in third world countries we are fat and happy.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, David S. Michaels, Daniel Brenton, Red Moon, page 55",
          "text": "Like, twenty years ago everyone was fat and happy. The Cold War was over, everyone was at peace, the U.S. was cruising along with a big surplus.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Joan Johnson-Freese, Space as a Strategic Asset, page 4",
          "text": "Alternatively, perhaps consumerism is taking its toll, with people just too fat and happy to care.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Content; having one's wants and needs met; often with a connotation of complacent advantage or privilege (as for example with a sinecure or with power of socioeconomic establishment)."
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          "want",
          "want"
        ],
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          "need",
          "need"
        ],
        [
          "complacent",
          "complacent#English"
        ],
        [
          "sinecure",
          "sinecure#English"
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        [
          "establishment",
          "establishment#English"
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "fat, dumb and happy"
        }
      ]
    },
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fat, happy."
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          "fat",
          "fat#English"
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          "happy",
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "38 62",
          "word": "happy"
        }
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    }
  ],
  "word": "fat and happy"
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      "form": "more fat and happy",
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          "ref": "2001, Frank Deford, The Best of Frank Deford",
          "text": "The US. in 1954 made up only 6% of the world's population of 2.7 billion, but it owned 60% of its automobiles, 58% of its telephones and similarly vast amounts of breeziness and arrogance. For the first time, we were getting fat and happy.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Joseph Gwin, Beyond Malcolm, page 59",
          "text": "Since black people are richer than most poor in third world countries we are fat and happy.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, David S. Michaels, Daniel Brenton, Red Moon, page 55",
          "text": "Like, twenty years ago everyone was fat and happy. The Cold War was over, everyone was at peace, the U.S. was cruising along with a big surplus.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Joan Johnson-Freese, Space as a Strategic Asset, page 4",
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      ],
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          "complacent",
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          "sinecure",
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          "establishment",
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "fat, dumb and happy"
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fat, happy."
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          "happy",
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    {
      "word": "happy"
    }
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  "word": "fat and happy"
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