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Meanings of big bug in English

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Usage of big bug in English
1
Macpherson was a Land Agent, and the big bug of the place.
Three Elephant Power, and Other Stories
2
But he's evidently a big bug from the way Whiteleaf treated him.
Dope
3
He's a big bug at the Bar and has just got into Parliament.
The Adventures of Sally
4
He's a big bug, and I can't afford to affront him.
The Drums of Jeopardy
5
And he was rather a big bug at it in his time, I believe.
The Necromancers
6
You think of him as some sort of big bug.
Flying for France: With the American Escadrille at Verdun
7
So will we be prepared for the next big bug?
Radio NZ
8
We can't let a big bug like Esketh get ill and die in Ranchipur.
The Rains Came
9
No one was posting big bug bounties for Bash.
Wired
10
I said, "Yes, he is some pumpkins," meaning the same as " big bug."
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom / Or, The Escape of William...
11
She wanted to throw her pencil at the screen, right between Betsy's big bug eyes.
Survival of the Fiercest
12
What makes you think that he's a big bug?
The Prince and Betty
13
While the mother duck was eating a big bug, an old duck bit the ugly duckling.
A Primary Reader: Old-time Stories, Fairy Tales and Myths Retold...
14
A " big bug," is a great man, in the phraseology of the western country.
A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of Amer...
15
Perhaps there's a big bug in the works?
Firewall
16
Where there had been one big bug thing, now there were thousands of little mantislike creatures.
Small favor
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Big bug through the time
Big bug across language varieties
United Kingdom
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