VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Big wheel

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.