kill the fatted calf

Thank goodness it'll be after dark, and we can kill the fatted calf in private.

"You want them to kill the fatted calf for the prodigal daughter?"

"We'll kill the fatted calf for you, like the Good Book says.

No one can kill the fatted calf for Mephistopheles.

I mean, any way you look at it, they wasn't exactly killing the fatted calf for the prodigal son.

"In that case," said Jason, "we'll kill the fatted calf."

We must kill the fatted calf, Alfred.

"Fleur said we'd kill the fatted calf when I'd got my speech off."

Talk about killing the fatted calf.

Thus when the prodigal son returns, the father "kills the fatted calf" to show that the celebration is out of the ordinary.

"Is this the local equivalent of killing the fatted calf in honor of the prodigal's return?"

We killed the fatted calf, Inspector.

They didn't kill the fatted calf, but there was a young pig didn't see another sunrise.

Did they kill the fatted calf?"

While his wife went into the kitchen to kill the fatted calf, he stood and beamed at Drake with pride and pleasure.

She kills the fatted calf every time I come h - ' The chunk of door cut off his final word.

Ames is only the Godfather and he neither likes nor kills the fatted calf when Jack returns.

"Don't kill the fatted calf too quickly," said Drayton with a rueful grimace.

Kill the fatted calf."

Killing the fatted calf is another Biblical phrase which ought to act as an antidote to killjoy Christmases.

At the Tech there was no question of killing the fatted calf, at least not for Henry Wilt.

You will be jovial, my dear Martin, and will kill the fatted calf if you please!'

Paddy has asked me to dinner," she added in her breezy way, "and we are killing the fatted calf in honour of his return to town."

Casy suggested elaborately, "Maybe Tom'll kill the fatted calf like for the prodigal in Scripture."

Lord of the Barnyard: Killing the Fatted Calf and Arming the Aware in the Corn Belt (1999)