Aug 13, 2012 · I think the emphasis is more on "big" than on "cheese". Someone important can also be called a "big wheel," or a "bigwig," a "big gun," a "big shot," or the "big kahuna." Just a …

Aug 17, 2016 · Does "big cheese" mean a celebrity or an important person? I think there is a difference between celebrity and an important person. And can I use big cheese in a context …

Jan 14, 2017 · Where does the phrase "cut the cheese" come from? I understand it to be an idiom for flatulation. Is that the correct meaning?

Apr 13, 2011 · Picked up by British in India by 1818 and used in the sense of "a big thing" (especially in the phrase the real chiz). By 1858, cheesy had evolved a slang meaning of …

Sep 14, 2011 · 0 The usage comes from rural dairy farmers of UK and Ireland making cheese for themselves from semi-skimmed milk because they sold the cream/butter off to wealthier …

Oct 6, 2015 · Q&A for linguists, etymologists, and serious English language enthusiasts

Obviously certain types of cheese (Boursin, for example) are "trademarks" owned by specific producer companies, so they're much more likely to be capitalised in all contexts.

5 I was watching the Secret Service Dentists sketch by Monty Python, and in the video, The Big Cheese says the following after shooting his pet rabbit: There -- poor Flopsy's dead, and never …

In my experience, referring to someone in an organization as "chief cook and bottle washer" has multiple possible meanings: person has a wide variety of duties in the organization person is …

Feb 3, 2015 · The place however, was famous for its cheese. The cheese makers from this place used to draw the figure of a smiling cat on a special type of cheese. People who bought this …