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Very important person   /vˈɛri ɪmpˈɔrtənt pˈərsən/   Listen
Very important person

noun
1.
An important or influential (and often overbearing) person.  Synonyms: dignitary, high-up, high muckamuck, panjandrum, VIP.






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"Very important person" Quotes from Famous Books



... said Tuppence, plunging boldly, "I dare say you will think it is most awful cheek of me coming here like this. Because, of course, it's nothing whatever to do with you, and then you're a very important person, and of course Tommy and I are very ...
— The Secret Adversary • Agatha Christie

... friend there says, I am a boatswain," he exclaimed in a voice of thunder, "and a very important person is a boatswain on board ship, let me tell you, with his call at his mouth, and colt in his hand, as your silent companion there will very soon find out, for I presume, by the cut of his jib, that he is not ...
— Marmaduke Merry - A Tale of Naval Adventures in Bygone Days • William H. G. Kingston

... of a new hat. Every now and then she stopped to look in a shop, and more than once she smiled to herself as she remembered how she had escaped from her uncle's house by flitting out of the side entrance. For she had found herself within the last few hours a very important person indeed. From the moment the doctor's carriage had stopped before the door, a little stream of callers, reporters, business friends, and others whom she knew nothing of, had thronged the place, unwilling to depart without some definite news of this unexpected ...
— The Governors • E. Phillips Oppenheim



Words linked to "Very important person" :   personage, influential person, important person, VIP, panjandrum



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