big shot

Meaning: An important, powerful, or influential person.

Language: English

Literally: (Already vivid in English)

Category: Daily Life

Origin: The expression big shot is often used sarcastically or disparagingly.

More idioms — Daily Life

• big wheel — An important, powerful, or influential person.
• bigwig — An important, powerful or influential person.
• black and blue — Discolored from a bruise; injured in a fight either physically or verbally.
• black market — A system of buying and selling illegal goods or goods at illegal prices or quantities.
• black out — To lose consciousness temporarily.
• blow one's own horn — To boast or brag.

More English idioms

• blow one's stack — To become suddenly very angry.
• blow hot and cold — To have mixed or inconsistent feelings about something.
• blow off steam — To express one's anger, usually noisily and harmlessly, thereby relieving one's tension.
• blue — Sad.
• blue law — A law which regulates personal behavior such as going to certain movies, dancing, or gamb…
• blue ribbon — Renowned (sentence 1); first prize (sentence 2).

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