B
Idioms beginning with "B"
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Contents of B:
[big cheese] or [big gun] or [big shot] or [big wheel] or [big wig] {n.}, {slang}
An important person; a leader; a high official; a person of high rank.
Bill had been a big shot in high school.
John wanted to be the big cheese in his club.
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[big daddy] {n.}, {slang}, {informal}
The most important, largest thing, person or animal in a congregation of similar persons, animals, or objects.
The whale is the big daddy of everything that swims in the ocean.
* /The H-bomb is the big daddy […]
[big deal] {interj.}, {slang}, {informal} (loud stress on the word "deal")
Trifles; an unimportant, unimpressive thing or matter.
So you became college president — big deal!
[big frog in a small pond] {n. phr.}, {informal}
An important person in a small place or position; someone who is respected and honored in a small company, school, or city; a leader in a small group.
* /As company president, he had been a big frog in a […]
[big hand] {n.}
Loud and enthusiastic applause.
When Pavarotti finished singing the aria from Rigoletto, he got a very big hand.
[big head] {n.}, {informal}
Too high an opinion of your own ability or importance; conceit.
When Jack was elected captain of the team, it gave him a big head.
Compare: [SWELLED HEAD].
[big house] {n.}
A large jail or prison.
The rapist will spend many years in the big house.
[big lie, the] {n.}, {informal}
A major, deliberate misrepresentation of some important issue made on the assumption that a bold, gross lie is psychologically more believable than a timid, minor one.
* /We all heard the big lie during the Watergate […]