big cheese
Noun
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Noun
big cheese (plural big cheeses)
- (idiomatic) A very important figure, especially a high-ranking person in an organization.
- Synonyms: Thesaurus:important person
- He’ll be meeting with the big cheese first thing tomorrow, to present his proposal.
- French: big boss, grand chef, (colloquial) grosse légume, (informal) gros bonnet, huile, (derogatory) bonze
- German: hohes Tier, Bonze, dicker Fisch
- Italian: pezzo grosso (fat fish), capo
- Portuguese: figurão
- Russian: большой
- Spanish: pez gordo (fat fish), cerote gordo, gerifalte (colloquial)
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