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 #2 (permalink) Wed Jan 25, 2006 13:33 pm Big cheese |
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Hi Iraklij,
Big cheese is a slang description for someone who is the boss/the governor/the most important person in an organisation. Another slang expression is: top banana.
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| #3 (permalink) Wed Jan 25, 2006 16:57 pm 'guvna' and 'luv' |
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| the boss/the governor |
When I lived in London (what now seems like a lifetime ago), I often heard ‘guv’ or ‘guvna’ (governor) as a familiar way of calling men (usually in marketplaces or at corner shops – certainly not in posh places). Another friendly way of calling you was ‘luv’ (love), which I was not at all used to, but which I liked actually. Then I came to live in Madrid and was surprised to hear those same appellatives, or rather their equivalent in Spanish (‘jefe’ and ‘cari?o’) – here again, from people like shopkeepers or stallholders. |
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| #4 (permalink) Mon Aug 03, 2009 7:54 am Idiom: the big cheese |
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| Nice explanations. |
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 Sanjay Kanna
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| #5 (permalink) Wed Sep 29, 2010 6:10 am Idiom: the big cheese |
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Hi Alan,
Hi Conchita,
I am so pleased with your explanation, but I'm expecting more illustrating explanation. I wish I could give you an example. |
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