high-flyer
Britishnoun
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a person who is extreme in aims, ambition, etc
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a person of great ability, esp in a career
Example Sentences
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A couple have spoken about how they were conned out of more than £100,000 by a fraudster who posed as a generous millionaire high-flyer.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2023
The fragile screen separating savvy high-flyer and bereft sufferer cracks, irrevocably.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2023
Bolton runs the aerial arts school High Expectations in Memphis, where Ja Morant, too, is a high-flyer, as the All-Star point guard of the N.B.A.’s Grizzlies.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2022
His grandfather was a famous senator, his father a high-flyer in the burgeoning aviation business.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2019
His disposition was easy-going, although his intellect was such a high-flyer; in pagan times he would have believed in ridiculous divinities rather than set himself up as an atheist.
From Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France by Gosse, Edmund
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