head honcho
Example Sentences
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Finally, Mr. Reiner prevailed upon Norman Lear—once his boss on “All in the Family,” then the head honcho of Embassy Pictures—to provide backing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
The band jumped over to the Sony Music label B1, whose head honcho is Wolfgang Boss - one of the first people to champion Clean Bandit back in the 2010s.
From BBC • Aug. 20, 2024
New York Times reporting suggests, however, that her ego simply could not allow her to admit that she's not the head honcho of the House GOP.
From Salon • May 10, 2024
Washington State’s head honcho acknowledges that with every big game his team wins, every Quadrant 1 victory the Cougars secure, they inch closer to breaking a decade-long drought.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 30, 2024
“Not in a million years. You just called the head honcho cheii. He’s gonna treat you like his grandchild.”
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
