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big wheel
noun
- an influential or important person:
a big wheel in business.
big wheel
noun
- another name for a Ferris wheel
- informal.an important person
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Origin of big wheel1
Idioms and Phrases
see under big cheese .Example Sentences
On Friday, viewers will see him give the big wheel his final spin, capping one of the most impressive runs in television history — and the longest ever for a game show host.
It’s shiny silver and resembles an RV—has a door and wide windows on the sides—but it also has a smokestack and big wheels with pistons like a locomotive.
The leading men of the show traded their donkey and horse for a paletero cart and a big wheel bike with a horse skull attached.
Sajak will not be its hub forever, but the whole point of the big wheel is to spin and spin and spin while staying in place.
In a visual medium such as film or television, the writer is often viewed as an invisible spoke in a very big wheel.
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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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