Meaning:
A person with a great deal of power or influence, especially a high-ranking person in an organization.
Examples:
- Rather than a budgetary cycle, ladies and gentlemen, it appears that we have a budgetary big wheel.
- The big wheel of the funfair could be seen in the distance.
- There's a couple of tombola stalls at the funfair, one is by the big wheel.
- I'm afraid of heights, so I'm not going to go on the big wheel.
- And then he saw a big wheel in midair.
- Have you been to the London Eye? You know, the huge big wheel by the Thames.