big-league adj.
(US) important, substantial, powerful.
![]() | Chickasha Dly Exp. (OK) 12 Aug. 4/3: When Noah Webster led the batting — He had these slangsters on the fuzz / When it came down to Big league chatting. | |
![]() | Everybody’s mag 31 682/1: ‘Say, this is big-league stuff!’ called Sidwell from the easel. ‘Old Andrew has put it across and nailed it there, Fred. This stuff is ace.’. | in|
![]() | High Adventure 58: Now don’t try to pull any big league stuff. | |
![]() | Fighting Blood 8: You can tell a big league head soda jerk by the way he picks up a glass. | |
![]() | Texas Stories (1995) 15: Guys like me can’t never get away with bull like that to big-league lawyers like yourself. | ‘So Help Me’ in|
![]() | Tucker’ s People (1944) 113: They’d all think he was one hell of a real, regular big league son of a bitch. | |
![]() | Walk on the Wild Side 67: I’m a big-league kid from a big-league town. | |
![]() | Scrambled Yeggs 72: That’s big league. Not good to mess around with. | |
![]() | Proud Highway (1997) 414: The Reporter is about the best magazine in the country [...] and as big-league as they come. | letter 19 Nov. in|
![]() | Digger’s Game (1981) 110: After all these years, Greek and Bloom’re big league. | |
![]() | It (1987) 523: That was weird – I mean really big-league weird. | |
![]() | Permanent Midnight 148: One of the less-known, wholly unexpected secrets of Big League Geeze-dom. |