a big wheel

An important, successful, or influential person. After Mark successfully persuaded both sides to pass the budget, people considered him to be quite a big wheel in the political arena.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Kobus	KO-bus	Dutch
Amirani	-	Georgian Mythology
Takara	tah-kah-ṙah	Japanese
Inka	EENG-kah (Finnish), ING-kah (German)	Frisian, Finnish, German
Xabier	sha-bee-ER	Basque, Galician
Prudenzio	proo-DEN-tsyo	Italian