muckety mucks
People with clout
Muckety mucks are people of importance or high status, often used with gentle mockery to deflate their self-regard: The muckety mucks in the front office don't know what's happening on the factory floor.
The term suggests someone puffed up with their own significance.
Also spelled muckety-mucks or mucky-mucks.
- bigwigsInfluential, powerful people
- elitesPrivileged powerful groups
- honchosInformal term for leaders
- head honchosLeaders of an organization
- upper crustSocial elite class
dignitaries · magnates · notables · big cheeses · executives · top brass · luminaries · tycoons · high rollers · VIPs · powerhouses · heavy hitters · power brokers · fat cats · movers and shakers · the powers that be · leaders · top dogs
muckety mucksnobodies
Unimportant, unknown persons
little guys · peons · commoners · small fry · underlings
muckety mucksnobodies
Unimportant, unknown persons
nonentities · small potatoes · bottom-feeders · subordinates · flunkies