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View synonyms for big wheel

big wheel

noun

, Informal.
  1. an influential or important person:

    a big wheel in business.



big wheel

noun

  1. another name for a Ferris wheel
  2. informal.
    an important person
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of big wheel1

First recorded in 1905–10
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Idioms and Phrases

see under big cheese .
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Example Sentences

They all drove little cars with great big wheels, and there was no room for their feet.

Flying across the sand like a four-wheeled rocket, the first fiberglass dune buggy was sleek, stylish and a little whimsical, a small car with big wheels and a tangerine-red paint job.

But, by all appearances, Hirni himself relishes playing the role of a political big wheel.

"East by nothe, sir," repeated the quartermaster in mechanical tones, spinning the big wheel to the left.

But just then Lulu felt something pulling her down toward where the big wheel went around and around, and she got frightened.

The old leveller, Nature, is at her eternal work of rotation, turning the big wheel round.

I've slid over on the big wheel myself, lots of times, and gone all the way around, under water as well.

And then the big wheel began to turn—surr, surr, surr—always quicker and quicker.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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