NOUN
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an important influential person
he thinks he's a big shot
the Qaeda commander is a very big fish
she's a big deal in local politics
How To Use big cheese In A Sentence
- The big cheese of negative emotions is anger. Times, Sunday Times
- It is owned by an impossibly handsome young man who is a big cheese with an impeccably fashionable retail/restaurant group.
- Somehow, I don't think you'd get that with an audience of big cheeses.
- I should have been flattered, my doctor being the big cheese now.
- What worries me is that I think I'll be working directly under one of the really big cheeses.
- Virtually everybody in the factory - the boss, or should I say the big cheese, included - is gathered round, transfixed by the Japanese Grand Prix.
- If you want to spend a few moments with the big cheese himself, load your camera, dig out a pen, and get in line here.
- He is the big cheese.
- Someone recommended I talk to them because they were the big cheeses when it comes to films.
- In my scarlet red neckerchief, I really thought I was a big cheese.
