big wig

基本解釋

Actually it was a big wig.
確實(shí)是大人物。
She wore a new hairpiece every day and was considered a big wig.
她每天都戴著新假發(fā)，以爲(wèi)自己是個(gè)大人物。
In George Washington’s day, it was in vogue to wear a great big wig.
在華盛頓時(shí)代，戴一頭華麗的假發(fā)是儅時(shí)的時(shí)尚。

Big wig businessmen take schools that are falling apart, financially buying them, and put them on the Wall Street market for a pretty profit.
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He wore a wig like a big woolly hat, a red floppy bow tie, a yellow speckled vest, and a black coat, and he was emphatically gesturing with white-gloved hands.
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For many years parking meters held no fear for Cruzians because a clown, wearing rainbow-striped pants, a wig and a big red nose would drop coins, gratis, into meters about to expire.
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If you refer to an important person as a bigwig, you are being somewhat disrespectful.