Bigwigs [noun]

I am told he is a professor, orator, and author, whose ambition makes him the slave of every bigwig.

He heard me out, looked at my deceased poppies, and arranged a conference with a bigwig from the State Department.

Well, Monsieur Bigwig, the dancing teacher, you know of him.

"I bet you've drawn that Chinese bigwig that's booked from here," said the captain, grinning.

The Assistant Secretary is here to discuss the hot-dog concession with a local bigwig.

A bigwig, with an inordinate ambition to become a minister, (p. 276) invited him to dinner.

Matvei Ilyitch was just such a bigwig, although he called himself a Liberal.

Pity is it to lose a word of this ruler, who rules in fashion so different from the law-giving of the usual bigwig.

On the present occasion he welcomed Arkady with all the bonhomie, all the jocosity, of an "enlightened" bigwig.

And abruptly changing the subject, he talked of pictures to the pleasant Bigwig in the sleepy afternoon.