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15 hidden meanings of popular food phrases

Discover the hidden meanings of some of your favorite food phrases. 

5. "The big cheese"

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Meaning: The best of the best

Sure it might be an endearing name for the boss, or just literally a really, really big cheese wheel, but this phrase鈥檚 origin has nothing to do with dairy鈥檚 best magic trick. Since the earliest 19th century, cheese was used as a noun to describe something wealthy or top-rate. "Cheese" originated from the Persian Anglophile phrase, 鈥渢he chiz,鈥 meaning a cool thing. We鈥檙e gonna go ahead and bring that term back. It鈥檒l be da chiz.

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