big wheel

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nounInformal.
  1. an influential or important person: a big wheel in business.

Origin of big wheel

1
First recorded in 1905–10

Words Nearby big wheel

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How to use big wheel in a sentence

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

    The Open Question | Elizabeth Robins
  • I've slid over on the big wheel myself, lots of times, and gone all the way around, under water as well.

    Fred Fenton on the Track | Allen Chapman
  • And then the big wheel began to turn—surr, surr, surr—always quicker and quicker.

    Dame Care | Hermann Sudermann

British Dictionary definitions for big wheel

big wheel

noun
  1. another name for a Ferris wheel

  2. informal an important person

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Other Idioms and Phrases with big wheel

big wheel

see under big cheese.

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