big shot
большая шишка (о важном и могущественном человеке)
This man used to be a big shot in the shipbuilding industry.
Другие идиомы:
- big cheese
- big fish in a small pond
- big of (someone)
- big enchilada
- back the wrong horse
- badger (someone)
- bark up the wrong tree
- best-laid plans of mice and men
- bet on the wrong horse
- black sheep of the family
- bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
- bull in a china shop
- buy a pig in a poke
- by shank's mare
- bat out of hell