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high-muck-a-muck

/hahy-muhk-uh-muhk, -muhk-uh-muhk/US // ˈhaɪˌmʌk əˈmʌk, -ˈmʌk əˌmʌk //

高高在上

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Slang.

    • : an important, influential, or high-ranking person, especially one who is pompous or conceited.

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Examples

  • Eric Garcetti succeeded Villaraigosa and has received high marks in his first year and a half on the job.

  • ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?

  • Nor does the jet have the ability to capture high-definition video, utilize an infra-red pointer.

  • Obsessive exercising and inadequate nutrition can, over time, put people at high risk for overuse injuries like stress fractures.

  • The most recent activity had a high point of 3.6 on the Richter Scale.

  • Honour the physician for the need thou hast of him: for the most High hath created him.

  • The most High hath created medicines out of the earth, and a wise man will not abhor them.

  • The Majesty on high has a colony and a people on earth, which otherwise is under the supremacy of the Evil One.

  • In cross-section the burrows varied from round (three inches in diameter) to oval (three inches high and four inches wide).

  • As Spain, however, has fallen from the high place she once held, her colonial system has also gone down.