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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



... by degrees all these faults gave place to a sort of playful drollery, that called out many a laugh. His cage was a fine, large, commodious place, well lined with tiers, and furnished with every convenience that he could have desired in a habitation, not excepting a big wheel, which is by general consent esteemed a great luxury for a squirrel. But he often liked a change, and when the door was left loose, he would soon find his way out. Then he had many hair-breadth escapes—sometimes from dogs, who looked upon him as lawful prey; ...
— Stories about Animals: with Pictures to Match • Francis C. Woodworth

... golden haze floated before Mary's eyes. She could not see through it. She tried to tell herself, as the big wheel spun, that this was not important at all; that it did not really matter what happened: yet something inside her said, "It's the most important thing in the world, to win, to win, to make all these people envy you. It isn't the money, it's the joy, ...
— The Guests Of Hercules • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... machine up to the door. It was a big thing: water-tank, grindstone, a table for rivetting, a little anvil and a big wheel—all built upon a barrow. The children forgot their fear in their desire to see this funny machine. He handled the bread-knife with many flourishes, whistled over the edge to see how blunt it was, pretended the blade was loose, and put it on the anvil to rivet it. "It must have been used ...
— Ditte: Girl Alive! • Martin Andersen Nexo

... 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 melody of her spinning-wheel, as she advanced and retreated ...
— Lost in the Backwoods • Catharine Parr Traill



Words linked to "Big wheel" :   colloquialism, knocker, big cheese, big deal, important person, personage, supremo, influential person



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