big ticket

Example Sentences

• "Some leave the field of play for a while to come back mostly for the big ticket moments."
• "My own notes (of November 10, 2003) as chair of SSHWC reveal the “big ticket” of ideas that would guide our deliberations: striking the right tone of our argument (i.e., no militancy), constantly reaffirming that a big part of TCPS is a good document (often using footnote references to TCPS) and that it is not opposed to academic freedom, and reinforcing the idea of the joint responsibility of the research ethics board and researcher."
• "The real big ticket here is the second episode, which brings back Evil Morty (or Eye-Patch Morty, if you prefer), and blows up the Citadel of Ricks yet again, as the end result of a catastrophic plan that spans the deaths of thousands and exists solely for one little boy to maybe possibly theoretically escape the tyrannical rule of his genius grandfather."
• "Let's start by tackling the big-ticket self-care items that all girls need."
• "So we've got, like in my subcommittee, we've the space station, but overall in appropriations we have the space station, we have super collider, we have the mapping of the genetic code, and all three of these are really big, and then there is the superconductor, but all three are really big tickets, significant big tickets."
• "However, we do want to assume that the big ticket is large enough relative to the bundle of resources committed to it so that positive saving on balance ( more saving beforehand than borrowing after ) will be required for feasibility ."