fat day
- noun
- Informal
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día de indulgencia
- Whenever I have a fat day, I try to go for a long walk the next morning.
Examples
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After eating an entire pizza by herself, she declared it a fat day.
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He laughed about his fat day after realizing he'd finished a box of donuts.
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Today is a fat day for me!
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I had a fat day yesterday after the party.
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After eating an entire pizza by herself, she declared it a fat day.
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He laughed about his fat day after realizing he'd finished a box of donuts.
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Whenever I have a fat day, I try to go for a long walk the next morning.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally built from 'fat' and 'day', so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it refers to a day characterized by fat (e.g., overeating or feeling fat). However the exact nuance ('feeling overweight' vs. 'indulging in excessive eating') is informal and not fully predictable from the parts, and the expression is not a widely established idiom, so it is only partially transparent.
Etymology
The phrase fat day may come from the old idea that fat meant 'rich' or 'full'. Imagine a day so full of food it feels fat, and that's why a fat day means a day when you eat too much or feel heavy.