Definition of “big deal”

"I was physically, not economically, handicapped," he says, without making a big deal about his crutches.

Also, maybe survival includes convincing yourself your own personal mugging wasn't such a big deal.

Edison didn't think electricity was going to be a big deal.

Even Charlie's cause for celebration was dismissed under the heading of `a very big deal ".

Louis Walsh said of the Special Olympics: "I don't think they are a big deal for the plain people of Ireland.

Michael Levi of the Brookings Institution in Washington said: "This is a big deal.

Peters managed to get it when an American film producer reneged on a big deal.

Something happens out in the ritzy suburbs, all of a sudden it's a big deal.

Three played out in Australia; the New York Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange had only one big deal each.