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

big fish n. colloquial an important or influential person or (occasionally) thing; (also) spec. a ringleader; big fish in a small pond and variants, a person regarded as important only parochially, or whose influence does not extend beyond the limited scope of a small community; cf. fish n.¹ 2a.

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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > one who is important > one who has influence

substantial1548

men of light and leading1790

big fish1827

big1833

sommité1856

leader1858

baron1876

heavyweight1889

Big Daddy1898

uncrowned king (queen)1917

big boy1921

top gun1941

1827 Amer. Farmer 22 June 1/3 Monopoly now is the word of the day, The big fish are driving us small ones away.

1830 G. Flagg Let. 2 Aug. in Flagg Corr. (1986) 41 This money of course goes into the general land office and from thence to feed the big fish at Washington at the rate of 8 dollars pr. day.

1864 J. Hay Jrnl. 30 June in T. Dennett Lincoln & Civil War (1939) xvii. 198 I wish you to be there when they [sc. the Senate] meet. It is a big fish. M^r Chase has resigned.

1871 J. R. Green Let. 10 Mar. (1901) 290 As for the C.'s.., they are big fish in a little pond, but one has seen plenty of them shrink..when they have been plunged into the London ‘big water’.

1923 E. M. Earle Turkey, Great Powers, & Bagdad Railway x. 260 Thus were Lord Inchcape's powerful interests further propitiated! Thus did the Lynch Brothers cease to be big fish in a small pond, to become small fish in a big lake.

1931 J. Wilstach Under Cover Man 2 The result [of the police raid] had been a lot of minnows, not a big fish in the collection.

1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 18 Sept. (Mag. section) 18 I wanted to be a big fish in a little pond... At 245 I'd be the biggest tight end in the Ivy League.

2000 News (Karachi) 25 Apr. 1/2 Moinuddin Haider said the anti-smuggling campaign will be launched in all four provinces simultaneously and initially it would be against the big fish.

单词	big fish
释义	> as lemmas big fish big fish n. colloquial an important or influential person or (occasionally) thing; (also) spec. a ringleader; big fish in a small pond and variants, a person regarded as important only parochially, or whose influence does not extend beyond the limited scope of a small community; cf. fish n.¹ 2a. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > one who is important > one who has influence substantial1548 men of light and leading1790 big fish1827 big1833 sommité1856 leader1858 baron1876 heavyweight1889 Big Daddy1898 uncrowned king (queen)1917 big boy1921 top gun1941 1827 Amer. Farmer 22 June 1/3 Monopoly now is the word of the day, The big fish are driving us small ones away. 1830 G. Flagg Let. 2 Aug. in Flagg Corr. (1986) 41 This money of course goes into the general land office and from thence to feed the big fish at Washington at the rate of 8 dollars pr. day. 1864 J. Hay Jrnl. 30 June in T. Dennett Lincoln & Civil War (1939) xvii. 198 I wish you to be there when they [sc. the Senate] meet. It is a big fish. M^r Chase has resigned. 1871 J. R. Green Let. 10 Mar. (1901) 290 As for the C.'s.., they are big fish in a little pond, but one has seen plenty of them shrink..when they have been plunged into the London ‘big water’. 1923 E. M. Earle Turkey, Great Powers, & Bagdad Railway x. 260 Thus were Lord Inchcape's powerful interests further propitiated! Thus did the Lynch Brothers cease to be big fish in a small pond, to become small fish in a big lake. 1931 J. Wilstach Under Cover Man 2 The result [of the police raid] had been a lot of minnows, not a big fish in the collection. 1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 18 Sept. (Mag. section) 18 I wanted to be a big fish in a little pond... At 245 I'd be the biggest tight end in the Ivy League. 2000 News (Karachi) 25 Apr. 1/2 Moinuddin Haider said the anti-smuggling campaign will be launched in all four provinces simultaneously and initially it would be against the big fish. extracted from bigadj.adv. < as lemmas
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