His once-rival Iceman — Val Kilmer — is back, too, a huge Navy muckety-muck now.From the 5th paragraph of this article at ABC News.
上記の文で、muckety-muckの意味は?
In the sentence above, what does "muckety-muck" mean?
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解答
意味:英辞郎によると、
〈俗〉〔傲慢な〕重要人物、お偉方、高位の人決して褒め言葉ではないので、使い方に注意してください。
別の言い方は、high muckety-muck, muckamuck, mucky-muckです。
Answer
According to Merriam-Webster:an important and often arrogant person
Examples
- Bike industry muckety-mucks met with Barack Obama in Chicago.
- He is currently a muckety-muck with the Hunter-Dickinson Group and has had a distinguished career.
- A Dell marketing muckety-muck chucked muck at Apple's iPad 2.
- We're just waiting for the muckety mucks in upper management to give us the green light before we get the project started.
- "All hail the muckety-muck," Jerry muttered under his breath as the CEO walked by.
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