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big fish

noun

an important or powerful person
a big fish in a small pond
the most important or powerful person in a small group

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“The government just wanted to catch the big fish [in the Juarez cartel] and they ignored everything in between,” Lozoya said.

The small fish have been brought to account for their role but the big fish are still free and dangerous.

I had come to Robinson from a tiny school at an overseas post my dad was assigned to, where I had been a big fish in a small pond.

This is because being a big fish in a little pond has significant advantages.

This brings us to the big fish, Obama, who is the only fish that really matters here.

Nets were run out in a jiffy, but I fear the big fish had already given them the slip.

Then I stopped crying, absorbed entirely in the fine story I was inventing of the big fish's capture and death.

The Cormorant is famous for his large appetite; he chases even big fish, of a size to choke him, you would think.

Somewhere out there a couple of hundred yards the big fish came up and roared on the surface.

My boatman put on speed, and, as my boat is fast, it did not take us long to get somewhere near where this big fish broke.

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