Sentences with phrase «big fish in»

I didn't go for the china, so she painted her own version with a big fish in the center with a hook in its mouth.

We went from being a big fish in a little pond to swimming in the ocean alongside giant fish with a billion dollars in the bank.

«Being the big fish in a small bowl» sums up the approach they adopted in 2007.

Of course there's the regression from being a big fish in a small pond back to being a small fish in a big pond.

Even though fishing is a huge industry in Alaska, you can still be the big fish in a small pond when it comes to being a medical assistant.

Are you concerned that this candidate is going to either be a big fish in a small pond or a small fish in a big pond?

Similar problems have occurred when ETFs become big fish in small ponds.

«They wanted to go after bitcoin because that's the big fish in terms of figuring out how to work with all of these compliance issues.

Microsoft already went hunting for the big fish in the app game.

I've adopted the idea of being a big fish in a small pond as the basis of almost everything in my life: career, finances, hobbies, etc..

The way to avoid relative deprivation and all its attendant woes is to be «a big fish in a small pond.»

A big fish in a small pond, by contrast, chooses investment opportunities based on how much influence they can wield and how much expertise they can accumulate.

As the head of a small business you are, by definition, a big fish in a small pond.

But for now, let's look at five «big fish in a small pond» techniques in personal finance.

Being a bit of a big fish in a small pond has given me the opportunity to take the lead on some really great files.

She surmises this might be because he is a big fish in the small pond of Saskatchewan's legal community, which has only 1,500 lawyers.

Did they want to be a Little Fish in the Big Pond of the Salon or a Big Fish in a Little Pond of their own choosing?

They could be a very small fish in a very big pond, or a big fish in a smaller pond.

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Nowadays he is more probably a very big fish in a school of casually lethal legal piranha.

The old adage of «better to be a big fish in a small pond» is very true in a highly competitive market.

And the economy was also consuming a relatively intact continent and all the big fish in the ocean while burning fossil fuels during the last few centuries, so you're not even comparing different things.

It may not be a big fish in America but in Australia is a strong confirmation tying «contrarian» «scientists» with the manufactured dissent of PR lobbyists.

Since then, many attempts have been made to read the tea leaves in hopes of predicting what approach EPA will take to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants — the big fish in terms of potential pollution benefits (86 % of U.S.

It only took a few decades for humans to extract 90 percent of the big fish in the ocean and cut the number of Coral Reefs in half, said Dr. Sylvia Earle, a famous oceanographer and National Geographic Explorer - In - Residence.

«A big fish in any sea,» Denton Record - Chronicle / Entertainment Chronicle, September.

He's a shot caller, big fish in an even bigger pond, a man with an insatiable appetite.

The new gallery is based around a different bunch of paradoxes: from being a big fish in a small pond to another gallery in a vast sea of art; from having a deluxe art space to a more modest one.

Final Fantasy IX came at an interesting time in my life, I'd just moved from Primary School to High School, I'd gone from being a big fish in a small pond to a very small fish in a very big ocean.

I came back from LA to NC and got a sort of big fish in a small pond effect.

Mermaid 2 runs affordable liveaboard holidays in both Komodo and Raja Ampat - big fish in Indonesia!

The Otago and Southland tributaries are full big fish in small water; and the classic backcountry rivers of the Southern Alps where trophy rainbows and browns sway in pools as clear as mountain air.

Do battle with big fish in blue water or speed across the waves on a PWS.

Diving from our dive resort Belongas Bay offers the opportunity to meet some of the big fish in the Indian Ocean.

It is a «big fish in a small pond» syndrome that brings former AKC show people into a rare breed not yet «recognized» by the AKC.

Many companies see an end in itself to be a big fish in their own domestic market.

This probably implies C&C is ultimately pursuing a cider consolidation strategy in the US — a big fish in what may be (ironically) a fairly small pond.

Every new country they launch represents a new micro-market, an opportunity for you to become a big fish in a small but growing pond.»

They're a very big fish in a very small pond.

The bestselling authors on Kindle are big fish in little ponds.

Just because you consider yourself to be a big fish in a ridiculously small pond, doesn't mean you can go off treating people like a doormant.

Perhaps most of all, we are thrilled that Jon Klassen was awarded the Caldecott Award for This Is Not My Hat, the story of a big fish in pursuit of a tiny thief.

above the competition, Jon Klassen was awarded the 2013 Caldecott Medal for This Is Not My Hat, the darkly funny story of a big fish in pursuit of a tiny thief.

Peis had long before decided that it was far better to be a big fish in a little pond than the other way around.

Medium - to - Big Fish in a Tiny Pond Lucky for me I'm a medium - to - big sized fish in a tiny pond, and these numbers have made headlines.

Challenges of being a big fish in a small pond (SF or fantasy erotica) versus jumping into more the more mainstream stuff with a larger potential readership

The idea is to maintain school quality and to provide small communities where each child can be a «big fish in a small pond.»

But Jacobs is a big fish in this small pond.

The Impact of Budget Cuts The director of Let Me Play, a group which has run summer schools for the last eight years, explains that a smooth transition from primary to secondary education is essential Children are going from being «a big fish in a small pond to being a very small one, in a very large unfamiliar environment».

We all need to have experiences being the big fish in the little pond and the little fish in the big pond.