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big league
1[ big leeg ]
noun
- Sports. a major league, as in baseball:
His debut in the big leagues was as a relief pitcher for the Dodgers in the final game of the regular season.
- Informal. the area of greatest competition, highest achievement or rewards, etc.:
He's a local politician who isn't ready for the big league.
big-league
2[ big-leeg ]
adjective
- Sports. of or belonging to a major league:
a big-league pitcher.
- Informal. among the largest, foremost, etc., of its kind:
the big-league steel companies.
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Other Words From
- big lea·guer big-lea·guer noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of big league1
Origin of big league2
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Idioms and Phrases
An area of tough competition and high rewards; the largest or foremost of its kind. For example, Winning an Oscar put this unknown actress in the big league . The term alludes to the major (big) leagues of American baseball. [Late 1800s] Also see big time , def. 2.Discover More
Example Sentences
If his big league career was short-lived, it was nonetheless substantial by almost any measure.
Down here, the big-league dreams of the players are still just far-off lights on the horizon.
The average salary is more than $3 millon, and the minimum big-league contract is $480,000.
This is the big league, and politics is a blood sport here, a tradition going back hundreds of years.
Jacqui, for her part, is represented by another big-league lawyer.
If you fellows hadnt given me Big League support theyd corralled the game after all.
Ive never missed an opportunity of seeing a Big League game and trying to wise up on the methods of the players.
Big-league fielders did not wait till the ball was high in the air before running to get under it.
To be a successful pitcher in the Big League, a man must have the head and the arm.
Newspapers work on the mental attitude of Big League players.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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