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hit the big time

vb. (context idiomatic English) To become successful and widely known.

Usage examples of "hit the big time".

And when he gets himself straightened out, he's going to hit the big time.

As for Sherlock, she looked like Little Orphan Annie before she hit the big time, her red hair a wild nimbus around her head, her face pale, her clothes stiff with dried mud.

Has rambled all over the state for the last year or so, and has hit the big time at last.

I've been with him through thick and thin and neither one of us has hit the big time, so we don't have to worry about that angle.

He used to do a little modeling and stuff like that, and then he was discovered and hit the big time.

This past year Sallee has begun to hit the Big Time, with a couple of story sales to Penthouse.