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A very doubtful etymology. They are a part of the New Wave of British Hardcore. Someone important can also be called a "big wheel," or a "bigwig," a "big gun," a "big shot," or the "big kahuna." Robert Hendrickson, The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins (1997) gives an earlier date for "big cheese" in the sense of "important person" than either Green (cited by Brian Hooper) or Oxford Dictionaries (cited by Andrew Leach) give: big cheese. 'Whole cheese' as a slang term for 'important person'. That's my 2 cents. The only advantage claimed for these monster cheeses is novelty. He is the piece de resistance of the new bill, which in Irish is equivalent to "main cheese." Golden has that wonderful gift of being able to magnetize an audience and with no other aids than a brilliant smile, a shock of auburn hair and a vast fund of very funny stories and an occasional song with an imitation or two thrown in for good measure, Golden convulses his hearers and sets the rafters ringing with the echoes of the laughing people. And they did so, and the people did eat meat and From "One Day Later in Washington," in the Rutland [Vermont] Herald (February 28, 1837): Mr Alford opposed the motion for a recess.
salted by the most skillful dairy women. How successfully, their monster cheese shows. in an extreme part of our own state, yet we humbly claim the right of judging for 'Cesare' in Italian is pronounced 'Che-sa-reh'. Nevertheless, several of the matches do use main cheese as a slang term, supplementing the early Google Books instances cited above. John Wells, Jun., a committee of the town of Cheshire, in Massoichusetts. Tlie task is arduous. Cheshireites, so they did as Jacknips had commanded. Why your Nashville cheese is only one of the great grand children of that; for there were various others sent to Washington at the same time, that were about the same size of yours! first office in the nation.
The first weighed 3,306 lbs, and the second 3,340 lbs. ... Mr Wise remarked that it was pretty well understood where the absent members had gone. tests, and its means of peaceable amendment. The villainess heads the procession in a repentant mood and returns the certified check. According to the free dictionary, "Big cheese" means an "important person".
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Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. [7] In August they toured Europe with Illusion of New York. The earliest citation is from 1908, with another from 1913. To myself, this mark of esteem from fi-ee born farmers, The latter bear- ing and journey : "And Jacknips said unto the Cheshireites behold the Lord hath pnt in a ruler over