Sentences with phrase «very big pond»

An Ivy League school is like the Salon, but the Salon was a very big pond which accepted thousands of paintings.

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

The fact is, you are currently a little fish in a very big pond, so a healthy balance of confidence and humility is what you need to demonstrate in interviews.

Another difficulty is that the providers of «forgetting» services are minnows in a very big pond.

I mean, when I speak to him I feel like a small fish in a very, very, very big pond, but I'm trying.

Not exact matches

He's a fish in a very big sport pond over here in the US of A. NBA and NHL playoffs in full - swing, wall - to - wall ESPN coverage of the NFL draft (has been going on for weeks and I don't even know when it happens), and baseball supposedly started (although the weather has something to say).

and I still reiterate my sentiments, many players are better suited to playing for smaller clubs with very little expectations and less pressure and I can name loads of very very talented players who just don't have the big club mentality, players who bloom and shine when they are the main attraction, the big fish in a small pond but who will whither and fade once they make the step up to bigger teams... with Arsenal Afobe will just be another player, another upstart who will find the pressure of delivering week in week out or be out of the team hard to deal with... at Bournemouth he has time to settle into his pace, if he misses chances like he did on his debut for the club he will still be given chances after chances, just like it happened withn him

How adamant Rodgers was that Sterling wasn't for sale, claiming that he «wouldn't get the same opportunities» at other clubs really made Liverpool look like a very small fish in a big pond.

And if they ever did join the Premier League, they would be a very small fish in a big pond.

Biggest surprise The Flower Dog, who had been lovingly washed and blow - dried and was looking very dapper, despite having been to the groom's parents» house several times, decided that this was the day she would launch herself into the large, deep pond.

You may very well laugh when Ferrell's Burgundy — who has left San Diego for the much bigger pond known as New York, only to fail spectacularly — tries to hang himself from a visibly fragile fluorescent light fixture.

They're moving from being a big fish in a small pond to being a very small one in a very large, unfamiliar environment that often simply overwhelms them - and the impact on their attainment can be disastrous.

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».

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

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.

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

Tesla is the biggest fish in the US EV market for sure, and will be for a very long time, but the US market is really a tiny pond compared to the China or the world

Eventually, you'll begin to feel like a very small fish in an extremely big pond.