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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Fat
 
  Fat as a bacon-pig at Martlemas.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Fat as brawn.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Fat as a sheep’s tail.
            —Anonymous		  3
  A red bag, fat with your unpaid bills, like a landing net.
            —Dion Boucicault		  4
  Fat as Mother Nab.
            —Samuel Butler		  5
  Fat as a whale.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  6
  Fat as a barn-door fowl.
            —William Congreve		  7
  Fat as seals.
            —Charles Hallock		  8
  Fatte as a foole.
            —John Lyly		  9
  As fat as a distillery pig.
            —Scottish Proverb		  10
  As fat as a Miller’s horse.
            —Scottish Proverb		  11
  Fat as butter.
            —William Shakespeare		  12
  Fat as tame things.
            —William Shakespeare		  13
Fat and fulsome to mine ear
As howling after music.
            —William Shakespeare		  14
  Fat as grease.
            —Old Testament		  15
  Grow fat as the heifer at grass.
            —Old Testament		  16
 
 
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