Koenig makes a big deal out of this call and frames it as a massive red herring.
Religious displays on public property used to be a big deal.
Grizzlies lick them up by the thousands, and the media has made a big deal out of Yellowstone bears eating these bugs.
According to Merritt, at the time of the killings they were thrilled about scoring a big deal in Saudi Arabia.
It was never a big deal before, but when he first got back, certain toys would throw him into a rage.
Now don't breathe a word of this, but there's a big deal on in Consolidated Copper.
The big deal was going slowly––not badly, but with maddening delays.
How about that big deal you were going to put through for me?
The people are invariably out for the big deal in cattle or corn.
If it had be'n a big deal I wouldn't have be'n took in, that way.
from mid-19c. in poker or business; as an ironic expression, popular in American English from c.1965, perhaps a translated Yiddishism (cf. a groyser kunst).
modifier
: a big-deal salary/ a big-deal Boston wiseass dick;
noun phrase
Related Terms
make a big production, no big deal
[1940s+ Students and WWII armed forces; probably fr the Yiddish sarcastic dismissal agroyser kunst, ''some big art,'' as translated and used, for example, by the comedian Arnold Stang]
