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Big Enchilada

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Noun

1. big cheese, big deal, big enchilada, big fish, big gun, big shot, big wheel, head honcho

an important influential person

Example Sentences:
'he thinks he's a big shot'
'she's a big deal in local politics'
'the Qaeda commander is a very big fish'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Big Enchilada

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n.
Slang
1. The most important or powerful person in an enterprise or field: "[the President's] big enchilada on both foreign and domestic policy" (Mary McGrory).
2. Something of the highest value or importance: "[The team] won the big enchilada in 1980 and 1982" (Scott Ostler).

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