What is "big-time"

Usage examples of "big-time".

Given the stress of the dementia work-up, every organ system crumpled: in a domino progression the injection of radioactive dye for her brain scan shut down her kidneys, and the dye study of her kidneys overloaded her heart, and the medication for her heart made her vomit, which altered her electrolyte balance in a life-threatening way, which increased her dementia and shut down her bowel, which made her eligible for the bowel run, the cleanout for which dehydrated her and really shut down her tormented kidneys, which led to infection, the need for dialysis, and big-time complications of these big-time diseases.

Ian will probably want to arrest you and Dec will be pissed off big-time.

I had put on my sharpest suit for this meeting with what Angelo Karpas had described as a big-time lawyer and now I regretted that decision.

Up to 1965, of over 1,300 stories, one-third would be sold to the big-time slicks and a dozen would become pictures.

Indian Creek water had been reallocated to big-time farmers down in the southeast portion of the state or in Texas, leaving folks like Joe Mondragon high and much too dry.

Gaius Gracchus legislated to try to curtail that, and to stop the smallholdings of Italy becoming the prey of big-time speculating graziers!

Many big-time contributors decided to save their money this time around, which meant that the candidates couldn't afford many TV spots.

In fact, Milagro itself was half a ghost town, and all the old west side beanfields were barren, because over thirty-five years ago, during some complicated legal and political maneuverings known as the 1935 Interstate Water Compact, much of Mi-lagro's Indian Creek water had been reallocated to big-time farmers down in the southeast portion of the state or in Texas, leaving folks like Joe Mondragon high and much too dry.

The legendary Clinton/Gore bus tours that began immediately after the Democratic convention - featuring Bill and Hillary, Al and Tipper - gave her a taste of big-time campaigning, and the joy of it never left her.

After many discussions, we decided to sell our accounts and furniture and close the doors, Leo to go into design and illustration and me to become a copywriter at a big-time advertising agency.

He tried to pass for "uncommitted" -- hoping to go down to Miami with at least a small remnant of the big-time bargaining power he'd planned on when he originally backed Muskie -- but McGovern's merciless young street-fighters chopped Crangle down with the others.

Bar Association -- and what kind of ambition he has in mind: I'll take long odds not only that he's on the Interpol files but also that he's an ex big-time American racketeer who has been deported to Italy -- and the line of business in which he used to specialise would make very interesting reading, because the criminal leopards, even the biggest cats in the jungle, never change their spots.

Sandy would play an American journalist in Brazil sent there to write travel articles about the beaches and the bikinis, and I'd be a prostitute that Sandy met, a white slave shipped there by a big-time crime ring, and Sandy would be determined to save me and get me out of Brazil.

An alleged big-time bank robber turned out to be a teenager who vandalized (but seldom penetrated) suburban ATM machines.

It's the 'Braxian element in McDonald that's driving her on in the hope of uncovering some sensational story that's going to catapult her into the big-time, and it's beavering away inside us, sapping our moral courage and reinforcing our instincts for self-preservation.