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Big wheel   /bɪg wil/   Listen
Big wheel

noun
1.
An important influential person.  Synonyms: big cheese, big deal, big enchilada, big fish, big gun, big shot, head honcho.  "She's a big deal in local politics" , "The Qaeda commander is a very big fish"






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"Big wheel" Quotes from Famous Books



... luxuriant hop-vines that covered the rustic porch in front of the little dwelling, the light step of Catharine Maxwell might be heard mixed with the drowsy whirring of the big wheel, as she passed to and fro guiding the thread of yarn in its course. And now she sang snatches of old mountain songs, such as she had learned from her father; and now, with livelier air, hummed some gay French tune to the household melody of her spinning-wheel, as she advanced and retreated ...
— Lost in the Backwoods • Catharine Parr Traill

... see you," said Dix. "I hope they don't drive me back again. But I went only to the first turn in the road. There I waited awhile and then came on. I could easily tell which way you came by the big wheel-marks." ...
— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on an Auto Tour • Laura Lee Hope

... had the lost bag in my outer pocket, which I watched jealously, for its bulk could be but too plainly seen; and when Dave and I found ourselves moving slowly upward at the tip of one of those giant spokes of the big wheel, he fixed his eye upon this pocket, and asked with ...
— Against Odds - A Detective Story • Lawrence L. Lynch

... golden haze floated before Mary's eyes. She could not see through it. She tried to tell herself, as the big wheel spun, that this was not important at all; that it did not really matter what happened: yet something inside her said, "It's the most important thing in the world, to win, to win, to make all these people envy you. It isn't the money, it's the joy, ...
— The Guests Of Hercules • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... with beauteous sights and soft murmuring melodies. Under the shade of the luxuriant hop-vines, that covered the rustic porch in front of the little dwelling, the light step of Catharine Maxwell might be heard mixed with the drowsy whirring of the big wheel, as she passed to and fro guiding the thread of yarn in its course: and now she sang snatches of old mountain songs, such as she had learned from her father; and now, with livelier air, hummed some gay French tune to the household ...
— Canadian Crusoes - A Tale of The Rice Lake Plains • Catharine Parr Traill



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