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