big fish


nouninformal
  1. an important or powerful person

  2. a big fish in a small pond the most important or powerful person in a small group

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How to use big fish in a sentence

  • Nets were run out in a jiffy, but I fear the big fish had already given them the slip.

  • Then I stopped crying, absorbed entirely in the fine story I was inventing of the big fish's capture and death.

    Tramping on Life | Harry Kemp
  • The Cormorant is famous for his large appetite; he chases even big fish, of a size to choke him, you would think.

    On the Seashore | R. Cadwallader Smith
  • Somewhere out there a couple of hundred yards the big fish came up and roared on the surface.

    Tales of Fishes | Zane Grey
  • My boatman put on speed, and, as my boat is fast, it did not take us long to get somewhere near where this big fish broke.

    Tales of Fishes | Zane Grey