some pumpkins

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some pumpkins pl (plural only)

  1. (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[1]:
      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[sic]; but this here town is five times as big.

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