Are You a ‘Big Fish in a Small Pond'? — VOA Learning English
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On today’s show we talk about an idiom involving fish and a pond. A pond is a small body of water. It is usually smaller than a lake.
And our idiom today is “to be a big fish in a small pond.”
“A big fish in a small pond” describes a person who is very well known or important in a small group but is not known or important outside that small group.
For example, a high-performing high school student in a small town could be a big fish in a small pond. He may feel overly-confident or overly-important, or he may simply not know how small his “pond” is -- until he moves on to a big university.
He must compete with hundreds of students who…
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