fat lot
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One hand-stitched, organic silk onesie is going to do you a fat lot of good when your child pees all over it.
From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2019
Steaming Hot Take: Known to the previous 9 generations as a fat lot of drunken jokes, the Red Sox this year played 162 games and won 495 of them.
From Golf Digest ● Oct. 1, 2018
All very charming if you’re a multimillionaire with a book on sleep to flog, but a fat lot of use to anyone with more stuff to do than hours in which to do it.
From The Guardian ● May 13, 2016
After all, there's already an aggressive military campaign ongoing in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and a fat lot of good it seems to be doing.
From Salon ● May 5, 2010
“Only one pencil. Well, that was my only pencil, and a fat lot of good it will do me down in that drain.”
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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