Note: This is from the story of Joseph in the Bible. During the famine in Israel, Pharaoh invited Joseph’s father and brothers to come to Egypt, where there was plenty of food: ‘Come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.’ (Genesis 45:18).
There’s another note from the same source:
Note: This expression is often used to criticize someone who is rich because they are exploiting people.
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All right, here are media examples of various situations where people are described as living off the fat of the land:
1. Mrs Williams, Mona, later Mona, Countess Bismarck, was married to one of the world’s richest men, a utility magnate with a fortune before the ’29 Crash estimated at $700 million (or $70 billion in today’s currency). She and her husband lived in the house on 94th and Fifth built by Delano and Aldrich for Willard Straight and Dorothy Payne Whitney, and in Palm Beach and Bayville.
Barbara Hutton, known in the press and to the public as the “Poor Little Rich Girl” was the Woolworth heiress who in the late 1920s inherited about a half a billion (in today’s currency) when she was a child, and later owned houses all over the world (including Winfield House in London which is now the American Ambassador’s residence). Famous for her extravagance and multitude of husbands, she was an object of fascination and resentment by the public and the press.
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