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Noun
some pumpkins pl (plural only)
- (US, idiomatic) A person or thing of consequence.
- Antonym: small potatoes
- June 21, 1848, N.Y. Herald
- General Cass is some pumpkins, and will do the needful in the office line, if he is elected.
1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Poet and the Peasant”, in Strictly Business:I’ve just run down from Ulster County to look at the town, bein’ that the hayin’s over with. Gosh! but it’s a whopper. I thought Poughkeepsie was some punkins; but this here town is five times as big.
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