big beast

noun

1. informal.
   an important or powerful person

Example Sentences

Mr Alexander, the Labour big beast she beat, is hoping to return as an MP, standing for Labour in a different seat in the east of Scotland.

From BBC

An MP, who wants Mr Johnson to go, said a protracted party leadership contest during a crisis was almost unthinkable, in part because there was not an obvious, single candidate - "no big beast, Hezza-type figure" - to replace him.

From BBC

He’s been a big beast of the media world for five decades.

From New York Times

"A PM who takes Parliament for granted will achieve none of these things and simply end up, not as a big beast, but as just another former occupant of No 10," Mr Ellwood wrote of Boris Johnson.

From BBC

Big beast China had been steadily tightening monetary policy until some wobbly economic data triggered a reversal this month in the shape of a cut to banks’ reserve requirements.

From Reuters