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Meanings of big shot in English

Portuguese
figurão

An important influential person.

figurão

Juan and Lee do not follow the crowd and refuse to sell their lands to the property developer. The bullies abuse them.

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Usage of big shot in English
1
However, that set up the big shot from Pickens for the win.
Reuters
2
Actually, he's a big shot here as well as in New York.
Bangkok 8
3
Jeremy was quite the big shot out in the world, you know.
Empty mile
4
At 68, he looks every bit the prototypical New York big shot.
Wired
5
He poured himself out another big shot and put water in it.
Men without Women
6
I've just finished some scary negotiations with a big shot from Vegas.
Silver zombie: delilah street: paranormal investigator
7
And every time my dad acts like a big shot, we drink.
Twisted
8
He's just making us do stuff to feel like a big shot.
Nemesis
9
See the big shot business man quietly funding a school project.
The South African
10
Nobody really shies away from the big shot on this team.
Reuters
11
I know this-notbecause I'm a big shot-butbecause I worked for one.
Wired
12
Jerry had a rifle, and Hamp a double-barreled shotgun loaded with big shot.
The Camp in the Snow; Or, Besieged by Danger
13
You can show everybody you're a big shot now, Saraub said.
Audrey's door
14
He's probably just trying to be a big shot with her.
Fine things
15
Something exotic to impress their friends about what a big shot they are.
Obsidian Butterfly
16
The chauffeur remarked that the writer must be some kind of big shot.
The new yorker
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