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Definition of Big cheese
1. Noun. An important influential person. "The Qaeda commander is a very big fish"
Language type: Colloquialism
Generic synonyms: Important Person, Influential Person, Personage
Specialized synonyms: Knocker, Supremo
Definition of Big cheese
1. Noun. (idiomatic) A very important figure, especially a high-ranking person in an organization. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Big Cheese
Literary usage of Big cheese
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Court Circles of the Republic: Or, The Beauties and Celebrities of the by Elizabeth Fries Ellet, R. E. Mack (1869)
"... Court—Scene in the Library—The big cheese—Amusing Anecdotes of Jackson's
Determination—Memoir of Mrs. Edward Livingston —Memoir of Mrs. Levi Woodbury. ..."
2. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1876)
"Mr. PHILLIPS being called for, stated he had been considering the matter of taking
a big cheese to the Centennial, for one year. He had been to Philadelphia ..."
3. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1870)
"All the country had beard of the big cheese and came out to look at it as the
cldi-r along. When he got to Washington Mr. Jefferson received him in state, ..."
4. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-, Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, Martha Joanna Lamb, Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910, John Austin Stevens (1888)
"All the country had heard of the big cheese, and came out to look at it as the
Elder drove along." CENTENNIAL WORK IN OHIO—The Ohio Archaeological and ..."
5. Railways and Other Ways: Being Reminiscences of Canal and Railway Life by Myles Pennington (1894)
"The big cheese was in first-class condition at the close of the Exposition,
notwithstanding the ordeal it had to pass through, it being under a glass-roofed ..."
6. Life, Journals and Correspondence of Rev. Manasseh Cutler, LL. D. by William Parker Cutler, Julia Perkins Cutler, Ephraim Cutler Dawes, Peter Force (1888)
"All the country had heard of the big cheese, and came out to look at it as the
Elder drove along. ..."
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