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Idiom: the important man Tue Sep 27, 2005 11:39 am  Idiom: the important man
 

Test No. express/elem-1 "Adding Up", question 6

He is the man who owns all the land and is the big fish around here.

(a) the fat man
(b) the huge man
(c) the important man
(d) the enormous man

Test No. express/elem-1 "Adding Up", answer 6

He is the man who owns all the land and is the important man around here.

Correct answer: (c) the important man
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Idiom: the important man Tue Sep 27, 2005 12:18 pm  Idiom: the important man
 

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The stock metaphor from which this comes is a big fish in a small pond, used to indicate someone with a lot of power or presence, albeit s/he is dominates a limited milieu.
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