The word “hotshot” is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe somebody as being very talented or successful in what they do, for example: "John is a hotshot when it comes to writing computer code; he can solve any problem you give him with ease."
And Leigh was from Phoenix, and she was really wealthy; her father was some hotshot Republican defence contractor.
Still, things may look up: Alexei Ratmansky, one of today's few hotshot ballet choreographers, has just left the Bolshoi to become resident choreographer at ABT.
About half of leavers enter finance or consulting: one hotshot talks fondly of his internship on a London dealing desk with Deutsche Bank.
Chinalco, says a Westerner, has used the same 40-something bilingual hotshot on several deals: he was "very, very good".
William Hague, a top Tory politician, amused his followers by responding to a tweeted inquiry about the menu at a recent fast-food supper (Chicken Royale and a Fanta)—but his interrogator was not just anyone, but Bryony Gordon, a hotshot columnist for a national daily.
The second sort of expansion (Dewey's kind) is to hire hotshot partners from outside.
With one actor (Lucy Ellinson) and one minimalist set, the play follows a hotshot fighter pilot as she reluctantly joins the ranks of the "chair force".
ESL Investments, the firm run by hotshot manager Eddie Lampert, has set up a fund with a five-year lock-up.
The driving force behind the campaign is not some young hotshot, but Shelly Lazarus, the 60-year-old chief executive and chairman of Ogilvy & Mather, one of the world's biggest advertising agencies.
Some say McKinsey has asked them to repay loans it made so they could go to business school.Among the front-runners are Ian Davis, who manages the London office and is seen as a champion of Bowerite values; Michael Patsalos-Fox, who runs New York, and may continue a pursuit of performance; and Jürgen Kluge, a new hotshot based in Dusseldorf.
New arrivals tend to have hugely variable skills, from hotshot programmers to manual labourers.
