1. With the. The best kind, the highest rank; a state or example of excellence, fame, etc. to hit the big time: to become notable or famous.
2. To a great degree, on a large scale; extremely
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Speaker 2: But people do, they'll say- they'll say "oh well I wonder who that is?" And "I wonder where they're going." Speaker 1: Oh its nosey big-time. |
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Interviewer: Well I know you're missing out on things that could be beneficial and to bring people to the community. Like Speaker 1: Tourists, attractions big-time. Interviewer: Or even just activities for young families. |
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You-know, a lot of changes that way. Like the saw-mill industry's hurting big-time. That's the main employers around here. |
Very much - intensifier |
Speaker: Someday. As far as I'm concerned, Sturgeon-Falls, as small as that town is, it's got more going on than North-Bay does. Interviewer: Oh really? Speaker: Oh yeah, oh yeah. big time. Oh yeah, big time. |
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North-Bay to me, my- my own personal opinion, you got your rich and your low and your poor. You find that I-guess all over. Interviewer: Do you find that there's a big gap there? Speaker: Yup. Big time. Big time. Attitude goes along with it. You can tell the ones that think they're rich anyway. They walk around with their nose stuck up in the air. |
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Speaker: Sturgeon-Falls is you-know- ah now the French here and the French in Montreal is big-time different. |
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Speaker: Well, I have changed that ah, quite a bit, 'cause I got knocked down a few times with the neighbours and-that and now I've been very cautious and I don't argue with nobody and I don't be tramped on, you-know-what-I-mean? Like, ah, used- I have been used big-time in my life. |
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Nine years, I-guess it would've- I worked for them, mm-hm. Interviewer: So ah, diesel replaced the steam? Speaker: Oh yes. Oh, big time. In nineteen-sixty, yup. |
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Speaker: Well they call it something else now, Bay-Rocks or something rocks the Bay, or whatever. Interviewer: Yeah yeah. Speaker: And the prices have gone up big time, like I-mean we used to buy wrist band for twenty bucks and that was it and now I-think they're eighty. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: But still we've had friends come up |
A lot - intensifier |
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It was a big boom in Ottawa, for ah, Internet sales and it was selling at high-speed that's when it first came out big-time for residentials and monthly payments between Bell and Rogers. |
In a large way - intensifier |
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Speaker: Stupid shit like that. And he pretty much just, like, opened up to us, like, big-time. Like, he really opened up to us (laughs). |
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Speaker: Um I know that- well, probably hearing from here- I don't- I- like I say things ah like we have sayings like, "big-time" and like (laughs) different words that we use, but I-don't-know, it all depends on- I think it's what you do in life. |
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And I wasn't a bad referee. I could referee every night all over northern Ontario. And I had a chance to go big time refereeing but I didn't want to leave my family. |
At a high level or professionally |
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Interviewer: Well- so was (inc) Kirkland any different ah when you were younger to- to- to- to now or- Speaker: Oh big time. Big time. I find the kids nowadays are a lot ruder than when I was growing up. |
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Interviewer: But maybe not go into detail. Speaker: Oh. 'Cause- Interviewer: Because I know- Speaker: Yup. Interviewer: In linguistics we do do a bit of that. Speaker: We taught it big time, because I know that I c-- I can say to my to my granddaughter, "That's only a sentence fragment, it's not a sentence." |
A lot - intensifier |
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Speaker: Ah he's taking corporate law and security. Interviewer: And you're taking? Speaker: Law and justice. Yeah. Went from phys-ed to law and justice. Going to be a big-time Toronto lawyer slash next premier of Ontario (laughs). |
Important or successful- intensifier |
Speaker: Yeah. Ah his name is Leonard-Alsworthy. He's our concrete guy, like he's originally from Latchford but he ended up going like playing major- big time professional hockey and like living in Vegas and all that kind-of crazy stuff. |
At a high level or professionally |
Speaker: Ah, most people don't like it 'cause they all think it's a big rough city but to me it's- it's good times. It's big time party city. It's probably more of a part-- like with its demographics and the size of Sudbury, it's a probably a bigger party city than most cities in Ontario. |
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Ah, my first year, I seen Alexis-on-Fire and the Trues. Ah they have Three-Days-Grace, they have a lot of big time bands that show up there. |
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Interviewer: Did you find it easier to transition to Sudbury than (inc) Toronto. Speaker: Ah, I-don't-know, I'm a big time city guy, like I've been in the city quite a bit. |
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