big shot
an important or influential person.
Origin of big shot
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How to use big shot in a sentence
VATICAN CITY — By now, news that Pope Francis has fired yet another Vatican big shot is hardly shocking.
Is The Pope Unprotected Now That He’s Fired the Head of the Swiss Guards? | Barbie Latza Nadeau | December 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNow, the villain of 2009 is just another big shot getting the good stuff before the rest of us.
Is Twitter Giving Iran's Supreme Leader Celebrity Treatment? | Eli Lake | April 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTChristie did not appreciate the man “shooting his mouth off” and thinking himself such a “real big shot.”
When Politicos Attack: Six Biggest On-Camera Blow-Ups | Rachel Bronstein | January 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThese are very good times indeed to be a big-shot financier.
Wall Street CEOs Say It’s The Best of Times and The Worst of Times | Daniel Gross | November 12, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHe was the first big shot political insider whom I spoke to regularly, whose home phone number I had, things like that.
Engel probably had gone upstairs to try and peddle one of his efficiency schemes to some big shot.
Somebody kicked Fanshaw—the Jolly Lad big-shot—in the belly.
The Planet Strappers | Raymond Zinke GallunThen came a big shot that knocked over the pivot-gun, and killed half its crew.
The Naval History of the United States | Willis J. Abbot.This big shot would tear a rabbit all to pieces and I believe we are more apt to see rabbits than deer.
At Boarding School with the Tucker Twins | Nell SpeedYou know how every super-jet big shot on twenty-five planets wants to say he's hunted on Khatka.
Voodoo Planet | Andre Norton
British Dictionary definitions for big shot
informal an important or influential person
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with big shot
see under big cheese.
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