big fish

Questions about big fish

What does big fish mean?

big fish means "an important influential person".

What is another word for big fish?

Close synonyms include big shot, big gun, big wheel, big cheese, big deal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is big fish a common word?

big fish is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.