big fish
Example Sentences
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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
The first arrests in connection with the scandal -- eight members of the country's Department of Public Works and Highways -- were announced only days ago, with the government promising "big fish are coming soon".
From Barron's • Nov. 30, 2025
Yet for 101 minutes, the big fish and the minnows were even.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2024
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
