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   big cheese

   /tʃiːz/

   noun

   • 1. an important person: informal "he was a really big cheese in the business world"

   Word Origin mid 19th century (as the cheese, meaning ‘something first-rate’): probably via Urdu from Persian čīz ‘thing’.

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