fat farm
a sanitarium or a resort that specializes in helping people lose weight.
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British Dictionary definitions for fat farm
slang a health farm or similar establishment to which people go to lose weight
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Other Idioms and Phrases with fat farm
A clinic or resort where people go to lose weight, as in She spends all her vacations at a fat farm but it hasn't helped so far. This is a somewhat derisive term for such an establishment. [Colloquial; 1960s]
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