grand poobah

Rutland Barrington, the original Pooh-Bah

Meaning

Noun

A person who is important or high-ranking.
An extremely pompous person.

Origin

From Pooh-Bah, the name of a character in Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Mikado (1885).

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