Well, I recently read something and I could read someone is a big cheese so please anyone tell me in what circumstance I could say somebody is a big cheese?
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Well, I recently read something and I could read someone is a big cheese so please anyone tell me in what circumstance I could say somebody is a big cheese?
A big cheese is a person of power and influence.
French: un homme de poids (et aujourd'hui une femme de poids.)
***not a teacher***
Also a big fish, big noise, big gun, big wheel, and big shot. The last two ones must be used more in AmE.
I've always heard it as "the Big Cheese". There's only one - the boss.
The Numero Uno, Head Honcho, big Kahuna ...
Some of Mehrgan's can be multiple - "He's one of the big guns." But there's only one Big Cheese (in a certain place at a certain time).
Is it used differently elsewhere?
[QUOTE=Raymott;717548]I've always heard it as "the Big Cheese". There's only one - the boss.
Perhaps that is an Australian usage. Around here, we often say someone is a big cheese.
In the UK, you can have many big guns, but there's only one big cheese IMO.