"Bigwig" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... because George had not prospered in the world. Sir Henry had prospered signally—would probably prosper much more signally. Might it not be safely predicated of a man who was solicitor-general before he was thirty, that he would be lord-chancellor or lord chief-justice, or at any rate some very bigwig indeed before he was fifty? So of course ...
— The Bertrams • Anthony Trollope
... Jove, will he patronise me? I know you'll marry some awful bigwig, or some terribly clever fellow; ...
— Doctor Thorne • Anthony Trollope |
