fatted calf

How to use fatted calf in a sentence

• We had no fatted calf to kill; but fortunately could show a tolerable menu, including beef and marmalade.

  In the Ranks of the C.I.V. | Erskine Childers

• He is supposed to have come back to the fold of the ‘serious’ writers, and so the fatted calf has been slain for him.

  When Winter Comes to Main Street | Grant Martin Overton

• Oh, if the puir prodigal wad return, sae blithely as the goodman wad kill the fatted calf!

  The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2, Illustrated | Sir Walter Scott

• No, Thekla, there's no occasion for slaughtering the fatted calf.

  A Noble Name | Claire Von Glmer

• The fatted calf should be killed, her boy should make merry with his friends.

  The Dreamer | Mary Newton Stanard