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Big gun

noun

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

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"Big gun" Quotes from Famous Books

... to gush over his coming back, he's fooled, that's all. He's left us to paddle our own canoe all this while, and, so far as I'm concerned, he can leave us alone hereafter. He looked out for his precious hide mighty well, and now he comes back here to play big gun and pat us on the head. I don't propose to let him come ...

— Main-Travelled Roads • Hamlin Garland

... "Their big gun talked very loud, but my Wapaypay was leading on, leaning forward on his fleet pony like a flying squirrel on a smooth log! He held his rawhide shield on the right side, a little to the front, and so did I. Our warwhoop was like the ...

— Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains • [AKA Ohiyesa], Charles A. Eastman

... were going through the rifle gymnastic drill. In some of the divisions officers and men were busy at the big gun drills. Others were cleaning a ship that always seemed spotless. The few that were off duty gathered wherever they could find room, for a battleship at sea, with her full complement of officers and men on board, is a ...

— Dave Darrin at Vera Cruz • H. Irving Hancock

Words linked to "Big gun" : important person, supremo, colloquialism, influential person, personage, knocker, big fish