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Big wheel   /bɪg wil/   Listen
Big wheel

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






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"Big wheel" Quotes from Famous Books



... with beauteous sights and soft murmuring melodies. Under the shade of the luxuriant hop-vines, that covered the rustic porch in front of the little dwelling, the light step of Catharine Maxwell might be heard mixed with the drowsy whirring of the big wheel, as she passed to and fro guiding the thread of yarn in its course: and now she sang snatches of old mountain songs, such as she had learned from her father; and now, with livelier air, hummed some gay French tune to the household ...
— Canadian Crusoes - A Tale of The Rice Lake Plains • Catharine Parr Traill

... see you," said Dix. "I hope they don't drive me back again. But I went only to the first turn in the road. There I waited awhile and then came on. I could easily tell which way you came by the big wheel-marks." ...
— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on an Auto Tour • Laura Lee Hope



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