big wig
Example Sentences
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“I was a chorus girl with a big skirt and a big wig, singing way too loud,” she recalled in a 1990 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle.
From Washington Post • Jun. 11, 2022
“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
Haart’s unlikely transformation from sheitel-wearing housewife to fashion big wig is the subject of “My Unorthodox Life.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2021
The brash, Wall Street big wig has known President Trump for years, and charismatically defended him in TV interviews.
From BBC • Jul. 31, 2017
Raised above the floor, against the wall was the judge's desk; and here the judge was already sitting—an old, handsome man in a marvelous big wig of gray hair and a gown of black.
From The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle by Lofting, Hugh