Fatted [verb]

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

The first thing he knew he had fatted up till he filled out his half suit and had to put it away in camphor.

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

Well, you know, it was not a moment for the return of the prodigal to his family or for any slaying of fatted calves.

But it ended in this,—that if Chiltern can be made to go to Saulsby, fatted calves without stint will be killed.

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

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

Undisputed sway had moulded him to the likeness of a fatted Roman emperor.

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

Is the role of Prodigal Son necessary to qualify for a fatted calf in Arizona?