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Big cheese   /bɪg tʃiz/   Listen
Big cheese

noun
1.
An important influential person.  Synonyms: big deal, big enchilada, big fish, big gun, big shot, big wheel, head honcho.  "She's a big deal in local politics" , "The Qaeda commander is a very big fish"





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"Big cheese" Quotes from Famous Books



... Delano was the West Side's favorite; and nowhere is there a more loyal Side. Five years before our story was submitted to the editors, Del had crawled from some Tenth Avenue basement like a lean rat and had bitten his way into the Big Cheese. Patched, half-starved, cuffless, and as scornful of the Hook as an interpreter of Ibsen, he had danced his way into health (as you and I view it) and fame in sixteen minutes on Amateur Night at Creary's (Variety) Theatre in Eighth Avenue. A bookmaker ...
— Rolling Stones • O. Henry


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