big timeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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名詞

big time (複数形 big times)

1. The highest, or most prestigious level in any field, especially in entertainment.

   Synonyms: big league, major league

   • 2012, Ben Smith, Leeds United 2-1 Everton‎^[1]:

     This was a rare whiff of the big-time for a club whose staple diet became top-flight football for so long - the glamour was in short supply, however. Thousands of empty seats and the driving Yorkshire rain saw to that.

派生語

• hit the big time

副詞

big time (comparative more big time, superlative most big time)

1. (informal) By a large margin; with great significance.
   • 2013 September 18, “Wheel of Fortune contestant loses chance at $1 million after mispronouncing a word”, in Daily Mail:

     A Wheel of Fortune contestant was about to win a shot at the million dollar grand prize when he bumbled his answer and lost out big time.

   • 2015 January 28, Hugo Martin, “American Airlines’ fuel-buying bet pays off in record profit”, in Los Angeles Times:

     “American doesn’t hedge,” said Seth Kaplan, managing partner for the trade publication Airlines Weekly. “So, they have won big time.”

   • 2019 December 6, Kerry Gold, “North Vancouver condo buyers ‘won big time playing the long game’”, in The Globe and Mail (Vancouver):

     North Vancouver condo buyers ‘won big time playing the long game’ [title]

   • 2020 June 22, Alan Swann, “Peterborough United almost missed out on signing star man Ivan Toney, but now they are set to cash in big-time”, in Peterborough Telegraph:

     Peterborough United almost missed out on signing star man Ivan Toney, but now they are set to cash in big-time [title]

   • 2021 January 1, Paul Krugman, “Things Will Get Better. Seriously.”, in The New York Times‎^[2], ISSN 0362-4331:

     But on other fronts there’s a clear case for optimism. Science has come to our rescue, big time, with the miraculously fast development of vaccines against the coronavirus.

派生語

• big-timer

副詞

big-time

1. Alternative spelling of bigtime

語源

big +‎ time

形容詞

bigtime (comparative more bigtime, superlative most bigtime)

1. Of major significance or importance.
   • 1918, Edna Ferber, “That’s Marriage”, in Cheerful—By Request‎^[1], Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., page 169:

     Wait till you see your name in two-foot electrics over the front of every big-time house in the country.

   • 1954 May, Richard Wilson, “Back to Julie”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, volume 8, number 2, page 69:

     Krasnow is a big-time operator; I’ve always been, you might say, in the peanut end of the game.

   • 1959, Marc Brody, Low Dive for Lola, page i. 9:

     'On the level, honey, I have an all-time, big-time need for coffee.'

   • 1997 July, Jennifer Zajac, “Get some major league fun at Little League dollars”, in Money, volume 26, number 7, page 158:

     Tired of shelling out bigtime bucks to see overpaid major leaguers with underwhelming stats and attitudes to match, baseball fans by the thousands are rediscovering a more relaxed—and cheaper—version of the national pastime: the minor leagues.

   • 2006 April 23, “A twist in the tale”, in The Observer:

     With a previous conviction in 1954 for receiving tins of corned beef, Betchley was hardly bigtime.

反意語

• small-time

関連する語

• big time

副詞

bigtime (not comparable)

1. To a significant degree.
   • 2018 March 15, Bill Press, “‘Lamb the Sham’ beats ‘Trump the Chump’”, in Chicago Tribune:

     This was the first test for that message -- and it failed bigtime.

名詞

bigtime (複数形 bigtimes)

1. Alternative form of big time
   • 1986 May 30, Larry Stewart, “It’s Time to Replace the Talking Heads With Racing Cars”, in Los Angeles Times:

     The Financial News Network’s SCORE program […] hit the bigtime last Monday by offering live coverage of Snow Chief’s victory in the Jersey Derby […]

   • 2010 May 20, Roy Wilkinson, “How Judas Priest invented heavy metal”, in The Guardian:

     Thirty years ago Rob Halford led Judas Priest, and heavy metal itself, out of the Midlands and into the bigtime.