a big cheese

(humorous)

an important or powerful person in a group or organization Apparently her father is a big cheese in one of the major banks.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Si-Woo	shee-oo	Korean
Jayme	JAY-mee	English
Jadranko	-	Croatian, Serbian, Slovene
Tatjana	TAHT-yah-nah (Finnish)	Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian, German, Latvian, Lithuanian, Finnish
'Aviyah	-	Biblical Hebrew
Lanny	['læni]