big enchilada
Example Sentences
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He’s been dogged by the notion that he’s somehow too young for the big enchilada.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2025
“California is the big enchilada, so to speak,” Sanders said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2016
"That of course would be the big enchilada," said former U.S.
From Reuters • Oct. 2, 2011
And before the year is out, a Danvers, Mass., biotech company called Abiomed expects to achieve what Harvard surgeon Gus Vlahakes dubs the "big enchilada in heart disease"--a completely implantable grapefruit-size artificial heart.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hustling through the throng comes the big enchilada himself: Brademas.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
