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Meanings of fatten on in English
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Usage of fatten on in English
1
Do not fatten on the labor of the poor, but share it.
2
They see themselves being starved that Germany may fatten on their granaries.
3
Nor would he leave his money in trust for trustees to fatten on.
4
He will fatten on these starved citizens when he climbs over their walls.
5
Think of those who grow rich on credulity and who fatten on faith!
6
I behold around me only people who fatten on my leanness!
7
After the wheat harvest the hogs fatten on the acorns.
8
Beef costs but a trifle, and hogs fatten on taro.
9
Robbers fatten on the spoil of loyal citizens, and loyal citizens are left to starve.
10
They fatten on the fruits of other men's brains.
11
Is a soldier to fatten on delicacies, and to revel in superfluities, for fourpence a-day?
12
Businesses that fatten on misfortune-thesaloon, pawn, old clothes and cheap food shops-linedthe squalid Cowgate.
13
The wolves fatten on the dead carcases.
14
But he seemed to fatten on bumps.
15
Methinks that, like the ground hogs that abound on his Island, he must fatten on hickory nuts.
16
See how the grasshoppers come hopping round, so that we can catch them and fatten on them.
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