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big cheese
noun as in important person
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A second later he appeared wearing a wig and goatee like Uncle Sam's and carrying a big cheese on a gold plate.
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Going in, I knocked a big cheese off the counter and stooped to pick it up.
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They kidnaped the hero-symbol, the big cheese, and later killed him.
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They had loaves of brown bread, a big cheese, and a bunch of onions.
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The Montague girl, the last to escape, was seen to announce, "The big cheese is loose—it's eating all the little ones!"
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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