big cheese

Example Sentences

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Every big cheese in the subprime mortgage market would be there, with a name tag, and wandering around The Venetian hotel.

From Literature

He was described as "the big cheese" in the NHS telecoms department.

From BBC

Neal’s Yard Dairy says it plans to use a less high-tech approach to preventing future fraud, including visiting buyers in person when big cheese orders are made, rather than relying on digital contracts and emails.

From BBC

“With this decision, you can make a little cheese, a big cheese, a hard cheese, a processed cheese — and you can give the name ‘gruyère’ for all types of cheese.”

From New York Times

On the horizon is Hahn's return as the wonderfully wicked witch, and the big cheese, in Marvel's "Agatha: House of Harkness."

From Salon