1.
[syn: big shot, big gun, big wheel, big cheese, big deal, big enchilada, big fish, head honcho]
2. anything of great importance or consequence;
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
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