Sentence examples similar to big time crack from inspiring English sources

It charges them with having helped a convicted big-time crack-cocaine dealer, Kenneth Supremee" McGriff, to launder $1m through their record company, accepting his cash in bags and boxes and writing corporate cheques in exchange.

Lenny Abrahamson's vinyl-black comedy Frank (Curzon, 15), gives Michael Fassbender an improbable test of his onscreen magnetism: as a volatile indie band frontman cracking up before he cracks the big time, he has to project tortured brilliance, emotional vulnerability and a not-half-bad Bowie-Reed drawl from within the confines of a crater-sized papier-mache head in the image of Frank Sidebottom.

James Silver asks if Adrian Chiles can crack the big time with his new BBC1 show.

That was when Walker cracked up big time.

The Wombat Trail – as the National party's election campaign is known – has just cracked the big time.

All I can tell you is that we all cracked up big time, as did her mother-in-law, who until then had been staring into space.

Savidan has truly earned his crack at the big time.

He said we deserved a crack at the big time as much as anyone.

Skatetown, USA gave 27-year-old Swayze his first crack at the big time - but the roller disco-inspired feature film failed to get the critics swooning.

The funny thing about Sturgess, now 29, is that he has already had a crack at the big time – a couple of years ago.

It doesn't sound eager and curious like someone's first crack at the big time, but rather like the work of someone comfortable with his well-honed style and feeling no need to innovate.