great wheel
noun
1An exceptionally large wheel, especially one in a piece of apparatus.
2 Watchmaking and Clockmaking the first wheel in the train; specifically a cogged wheel at the foot of a fusee, of slightly larger diameter than the adjacent largest step of the fusee.
Origin
Early 16th century; earliest use found in Stephen Hawes (b. c1474), poet.
- have a thing for
- have a thin time
- have a tiger by the tail (also be riding a tiger)
- have a tin ear
- have a way with
- have a way with one
- have a whale of a time
- have a will of one's own
- have a word
- have a word in someone's ear
- have bats in the (or one's) belfry
- have-been
- have been around
- have been around the block (a few times)
- have been known to do something
- have been there before
- have blood on one's hands
- have clean hands
- have designs on
- have every confidence in
- have everything
- have eyes bigger than one's stomach (or belly)
- have eyes in the back of one's head
- have eyes like a hawk
- have eyes like saucers