英语词汇“big enchilada”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

big enchilada n. (also with capital initials) [compare earlier whole enchilada n. at whole adj., n., and adv. Compounds 1b] slang (chiefly North American). (chiefly with the) a person with (the greatest) power, influence, or importance in a specified context; the person in command, the boss; (later also) = big one n. 2.Popularized in the context of the U.S. Senate investigation of the Watergate scandal, owing to its use by John Ehrlichman in a transcribed conversation in reference to the U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell; see quot. 1973.

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1973 in Submission Recorded Presidential Conversat. (1974) 347 [Haldeman] He is as high up as they've got. [Ehrlichman] He's the big enchilada.

1987 Los Angeles Times (Electronic ed.) 20 Oct. 3 This is the Fall Classic, my friend, this is the big enchilada,..this is for the whole ball of wax, all the marbles.

1996 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 19 Dec. 82/1 The Cucinello presepe is considered the Big Enchilada of the Certosa collection.

2001 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 30 Sept. (Seven Days section) 9/5 He nurtures his status as the big enchilada of foreign affairs.

单词	big enchilada
释义	> as lemmas big enchilada big enchilada n. (also with capital initials) [compare earlier whole enchilada n. at whole adj., n., and adv. Compounds 1b] slang (chiefly North American). (chiefly with the) a person with (the greatest) power, influence, or importance in a specified context; the person in command, the boss; (later also) = big one n. 2.Popularized in the context of the U.S. Senate investigation of the Watergate scandal, owing to its use by John Ehrlichman in a transcribed conversation in reference to the U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell; see quot. 1973. ΚΠ 1973 in Submission Recorded Presidential Conversat. (1974) 347 [Haldeman] He is as high up as they've got. [Ehrlichman] He's the big enchilada. 1987 Los Angeles Times (Electronic ed.) 20 Oct. 3 This is the Fall Classic, my friend, this is the big enchilada,..this is for the whole ball of wax, all the marbles. 1996 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 19 Dec. 82/1 The Cucinello presepe is considered the Big Enchilada of the Certosa collection. 2001 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 30 Sept. (Seven Days section) 9/5 He nurtures his status as the big enchilada of foreign affairs. extracted from bigadj.adv. < as lemmas
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