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big deal
[ big deel ]
noun
- an important or impressive person or thing:
to make a big deal out of nothing;
I hear he's a big deal on Wall Street now.
- (used ironically as an interjection to indicate that one considers something to be unimportant or unimpressive):
So you're the mayor's cousin—big deal!
big deal
interjection
- slang.an exclamation of scorn, derision, etc, used esp to belittle a claim or offer
Word History and Origins
Origin of big deal1
Idioms and Phrases
- (it’s) no big deal. no big deal
Example Sentences
Bessent added that there was an opportunity for a "big deal" between the US and China on trade.
Russia and Ukraine were both Soviet republics so it was not a big deal for the Kremlin in 1954.
There is an opportunity for a "big deal" between the US and China on trade, America's Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said.
“To be able to … offer space for these fish to be transplanted to — when we ourselves had experienced a similar situation but lost our fish — it was just a really big deal,” Hendricks said.
Being on the weight limit sounds like a small detail but is actually a big deal.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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