big cheese

Noun
  1. An important influential person (synset 109873287)
    "he thinks he's a big shot"; "she's a big deal in local politics"; "the Qaeda commander is a very big fish"
    domain usage: colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
    is a type of: important person, influential person, personage - a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events
    subtypes:
    • knocker - (Yiddish) a big shot who knows it and acts that way; a boastful immoderate person
    • supremo - the most important person in an organization
    same as: big deal, big enchilada, big fish, big gun, big shot, big wheel, head honcho

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