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Big cheese

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A very important figure, especially a high-ranking person in an organization. dated, idiomatic

    "He’ll be meeting with the big cheese first thing tomorrow, to present his proposal."

  2. 2
    an important influential person wordnet

Etymology

From big + cheese (“wealth, fame, importance”). Earliest use to mean importance from 1910.

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