big wig
Example Sentences
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Another former champagne big wig, Richard Geoffroy, previously of Dom Perignon, also now makes sake.
From BBC • Mar. 1, 2023
“I was a chorus girl with a big skirt and a big wig, singing way too loud. Angelo was doing the music for the show, and we became friends.”
From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2022
One of those came just a few weeks ago, with his dad, Gerry; investment banking big wig and Seminole Golf Club president Jimmy Dunne; and another member of Seminole.
From Golf Digest • Apr. 4, 2017
He cut all his hair off, and he said, “Don’t worry about it. I arranged with the wig woman to make a big wig before I left, so I am going to cut it off.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2017
This behavior, I saw plainly, was not very pleasing to Monsieur Maillard; but that gentleman said nothing, and the conversation was resumed by a very lean little man in a big wig.
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 by Poe, Edgar Allan
