a big fish

An important, successful, or influential person. Meeting a big fish like the company's CEO can be quite an intimidating experience for an intern. I'd rather be a big fish in a small pond than move to New York City and be a nobody!

a big fish

(informal)

an important or powerful person in a group or organization Mrs Coughlin is one of the directors - a big fish.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Yin	-	Chinese
Dubravka	-	Croatian, Serbian
Nelinha	-	Portuguese
Ankur	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi
Anne (1)	AHN (French), AN (English), AN-ne (Danish), AHN-ne (Finnish), AH-nə (German), AHN-nə (Dutch)	French, English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, German, Dutch, Basque
Thorburn	THAWR-bərn	English (Rare)