big show
Noun
Meaning
The largest and most prominent performance in a circus.
(sports) The major leagues, as compared to minor leagues.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgSynonyms
Examples
Listen: The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her. "Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on?" she asked me. "The big show is inside my head," I said.
Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an intervention, I'd make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.'
Welcome back to the big show where (at this point, he references something from earlier in the show)
X-Files wasnt a big show in England.
So there was always a stunt coordinator on those films that was from Stunts Unlimited and I was just one of the young warriors from Stunts Unlimited that got to be a part of it because it was a big show and they needed a lot of guys.
I put on a big show when I write something I think is funny.