big fish
Example Sentences
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"A few years ago, I used to catch big fish like captains and catfish but because of the pollution, they've moved further out to sea," fisherman Gilby Mwana-Fioti told AFP.
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
She was a big fish in a small and comfortable pond.
From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026
“There’s a lot of big fish on the lake,” said Paul Muche, scion of a family considered sturgeon-spearing royalty.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
García Luna was a big fish ready to be fried in Brooklyn.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2025
A whale looks like a big fish; Obama has been the subject of rumors about his religion; Nabokov was denied the Nobel Prize in Literature that many critics thought he deserved.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
