KURTZ: All the big-shot anchors are heading to town.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2009] Reference

Kitty Pilgrim will tell us about the big-shot farmers.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 7, 2007] Reference

He calls the big-shot neoconservatives his "temporary neocon allies.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Conniff: Con Games: Mamet, Miller, And The Ole Hitcheroo Switcheroo] Reference

"You think you're a great big-shot, you think you're king of the world!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Out Like a Light] Reference

Plus, anchors gone wild: when big-shot hosts trash-talk their colleagues.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 30, 2008] Reference

The words “big-shot” sounded especially foreign coming from her mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cold Case]

Plus, even the big-shot guests are prohibited from going on and on and on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salt talks] Reference

LAMB: Why did you think you wanted to be a big-shot Washington journalist?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saving Milly: Love, Politics, and Parkinson's Disease] Reference

He wrote a lot of verse and very correct, amusing verse for a big-shot lawyer.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Oral History of George Plimpton: The Man Does Everything Rather Well] Reference

He's happily retired from politics now, a senior statesman, a big-shot investor.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Atlantic: Will Gore Pull The Endorsement Trigger for Obama?] Reference

And that's why we didn't turn it over to some of the big-shot national reporters.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 5, 2004] Reference

He\'s happily retired from politics now, a senior statesman, a big-shot investor.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Atlantic: Will Gore Pull The Endorsement Trigger for Obama?] Reference

If that big-shot woman is really your sister, she won't talk to a poor sick Haluk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sagittarius Whorl]

Learn about the history of King Momo, a big-shot local chosen yearly for the parade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lea Lane: Covered in Flour! Just Back from Carnaval in Colombia] Reference

Some kind of a financial guy, you know, a big-shot executive type, works up in Atlanta.    From Wordnik.com.  [Killing Floor]

The support of this big-shot scientist from a major multinational silenced the skeptics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hydrogen Economy] Reference

Rezko clearly loved to play the big-shot contributor and sponsor of rising young talent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Says That President Doesn't "Run The Bureaucracy"] Reference

Visits by big-shot prison officers were more frequent but were clearly just acts of duty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 11 - The Second Date] Reference

Everything seemed normal: the same old dozy turnkeys; no angry-looking Captain or big-shot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 13 - Stage Two] Reference

One day a big-shot television executive caught her act while stuck in Derby for a bar mitzvah.    From Wordnik.com.  [The View From The Garage] Reference

Up next, the strange inhabitants of beltway culture include some big-shot, big-ego journalists.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2007] Reference

Florida is crawling with VPs, CEOs and former big-shot lawyers who have absolutely nothing to do.    From Wordnik.com.  [What It's Like When The Power Is Gone] Reference

Nevertheless, I have not given up my ambitions to someday be a big-shot A-list left-wing blogger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yearly Kos] Reference

The conference's big-shot theological star saying, "I have no time, friends, for liberal theology.".    From Wordnik.com.  [trinityboy Diary Entry] Reference

I see no reason -- I see no reason why big-shot crooks should go free and the poor ones go to jail.    From Wordnik.com.  [1976 Democratic National Convention Acceptance Address] Reference

It ended today and attracted some big-shot Democrats including the Senate and House minority leaders.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 11, 2006] Reference

Mercifully, there are no prolonged footnotes in the manner of that other big-shot Dave, Foster Wallace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yappers and Philosophers] Reference

In Moscow he reveled in the role of big-shot American businessman, teetering on the edge of flamboyance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Murder In Moscow] Reference

While people are being talked out of their homes on the streets, big-shot bankers are still raking it in.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 24, 2008] Reference

Q.E.D. Furthermore, Sununu is just like W, daddy was a big-shot conservative, so naturally he gets to be one too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Right-Wing China-Cuba Oil Myth Mutates Into New Form] Reference

As the misty upstate vistas rolled by, aides muttered into mobile phones and big-shot supporters chatted up front.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back From The Brink] Reference

Even the psychos, obsessed with media stardom, employ big-shot defense lawyers who fight for movie and book rights.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are De Niro's 15 Minutes Up? ��� Samuel Jackson, Homeless and Hairy] Reference

It's possible that Paul Wolfowitz or some other big-shot neocon mentioned the poverty in the land of voodoo and misery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Domestic Politics Drives Bush's Interest in Haiti] Reference

Chia's work was tremendously desirable at the time and all seven went to big-shot collectors or museums by close of day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cat Weaver: Art Noir: Black Lists and Speculators] Reference

OSBOURNE: He was just as cool and calm, and he treated me just like I was a big-shot, and I was all of 25 years old, he was 35.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 18, 2007] Reference

When I worked in the Financial District back in the nineties, the big-shot investment types loved to talk about accountability.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Accountability in NY or DC: $15 Billion for Jobs, $20 Billion for Bonuses - and Dodd Still Wants to Compromise] Reference

This guy's a big-shot manager who apparently couldn't get himself a personal room to hack his dam-hell-ass-bastard germs around.    From Wordnik.com.  [chicagojo Diary Entry] Reference

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I ` d like to know, if he can ` t pay any of these families any money, how is he paying all these big-shot lawyers?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2006] Reference