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Older Slang.an influential or important person: Who's the big cheese around here?[1885-90; see CHEESE3]
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Big Cheese — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda « Big Cheese » Sencillo de Nirvana del álbum Bleach Publicación Noviembre de 1988 Formato LP … Wikipedia Español
big\ cheese — • big cheese • big gun • big shot • big wheel • big wig noun slang An important person; a leader; a high official; a person of high rank. Bill had been a big shot in high school. John wanted to be the big cheese in his club. Compare: whole cheese … Словарь американских идиом
big cheese — UK US noun [C] INFORMAL ► an important person in a company or an organization with a lot of influence: »He left business school and became a big cheese in the City … Financial and business terms
big cheese — The big cheese is the boss … The small dictionary of idiomes
big cheese — n informal [Date: 1900 2000; Origin: cheese probably from Urdu chiz thing , from Persian] an important and powerful person in an organization used humorously … Dictionary of contemporary English
big cheese — noun count INFORMAL an important or powerful person … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
big cheese — ☆ big cheese n. [see CHEESE2] Slang the most important person … English World dictionary
big cheese — noun an important influential person he thinks he s a big shot she s a big deal in local politics the Qaeda commander is a very big fish • Syn: ↑big shot, ↑big gun, ↑big wheel, ↑big deal, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
big cheese — or[big gun] or[big shot] or[big wheel] or[big wig] {n.}, {slang} An important person; a leader; a high official; a person of high rank. * /Bill had been a big shot in high school./ * /John wanted to be the big cheese in his club./ Compare: WHOLE… … Dictionary of American idioms
big cheese — or[big gun] or[big shot] or[big wheel] or[big wig] {n.}, {slang} An important person; a leader; a high official; a person of high rank. * /Bill had been a big shot in high school./ * /John wanted to be the big cheese in his club./ Compare: WHOLE… … Dictionary of American idioms
big cheese — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms big cheese : singular big cheese plural big cheeses informal an important or powerful person … English dictionary
