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big shot
noun
- an important or influential person.
big shot
noun
- informal.an important or influential person
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of big shot1
Idioms and Phrases
see under big cheese .Example Sentences
Austin Reaves, who struggled shooting in Game 2, hit big shots, keeping the Lakers in it despite the mistakes rapidly mounting and making things tougher.
Once again, a big shot for the rookie.
"Not a big shot or having high thoughts of himself. He was back in training and being the same kid."
“We wanted to be outsiders on the ramparts picking off the big shots,” Carter writes.
Like he has so many times against the Lakers, the Nuggets point guard hit the big shot.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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