big deal

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

big deal
    n 1: an important influential person; "he thinks he's a big
         shot"; "she's a big deal in local politics"; "the Qaeda
         commander is a very big fish" [syn: {big shot}, {big gun},
         {big wheel}, {big cheese}, {big deal}, {big enchilada},
         {big fish}, {head honcho}]
    2: anything of great importance or consequence

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

23 Moby Thesaurus words for "big deal":
      emptiness, flimsiness, foolishness, frivolity, frivolousness,
      futility, idleness, inanity, levity, lightness, nugacity,
      shallowness, silliness, slenderness, slightness, superficiality,
      triflingness, triteness, triviality, trivialness, vacuity, vanity,
      vapidity

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