Unfortunately, with exploding population growth, excessive consumption on the part of the more well-off people in the world, errant technology, and corrupt governments, the environment is in trouble and the sustainability of the people of our planet is threatened.
â¢ BIG CHEESE (noun). The noun BIG CHEESE has 1 sense: 1. an important influential person. Familiarity information: BIG CHEESE used as a noun is very rare.
He also records 'that's the Stilton' as meaning the same as 'that's the cheese'. Early in the 20th century the cheese crossed the Atlantic to the USA, and there it got big. The first reference there to 'big cheese' meaning wealth or fame comes from 'O. Henry' (William Sydney Porter), in Unprofessional Servant, 1910: