big cheese
Example Sentences
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Neal’s Yard Dairy says it plans to use a less high-tech approach to preventing future fraud, including visiting buyers in person when big cheese orders are made, rather than relying on digital contracts and emails.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2024
I still think Philipp Grubauer’s their big cheese and everything will be done to ensure he’s successful.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 20, 2023
As for former CIA director William Colby, “he got a Bavarian chocolate and blueberry cream cheese pie because he was the big cheese of the CIA,” Kay recalled.
From Slate ● Dec. 31, 2022
“With this decision, you can make a little cheese, a big cheese, a hard cheese, a processed cheese — and you can give the name ‘gruyère’ for all types of cheese.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2022
Every big cheese in the subprime mortgage market would be there, with a name tag, and wandering around The Venetian hotel.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
