big wig
Example Sentences
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“I was a chorus girl with a big skirt and a big wig, singing way too loud,” she recalled in a 1990 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle.
From Washington Post • Jun. 11, 2022
“I was a chorus girl with a big skirt and a big wig, singing way too loud. Angelo was doing the music for the show, and we became friends.”
From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2022
The brash, Wall Street big wig has known President Trump for years, and charismatically defended him in TV interviews.
From BBC • Jul. 31, 2017
One of those came just a few weeks ago, with his dad, Gerry; investment banking big wig and Seminole Golf Club president Jimmy Dunne; and another member of Seminole.
From Golf Digest • Apr. 4, 2017
Meaning of big, wig, mig, &c.; of hat, oyster, &c.; of eight, octo, &c.; of nigh, near, night, &c.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 by Various