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Old 01-Nov-2007, 17:55
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Default Re: Well fed, well bred.

I wouldn't say its used very often.

It means if a person is fed well they are brought up well.

Being fed well (or well fed) can mean two things: the first is that they eat a lot of food, the second is that they eat healthily.
In that idiom, people are usually refering to the latter, that they eat a lot.
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