Talk:grand poobah

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Deletion debate[edit]

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Sum of parts - grand + poobah. The synonyms can be moved easily scratch that, they're all already at [[Wikisaurus:big cheese]]. — lexicógrafa | háblame14:41, 9 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, set phrase. --Yair rand (talk) 00:39, 10 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Based on the number of Google Book hits for poobah (2,630) and for "grand poobah" (850) and that this sense of grand isn't used much in 21st Century English, keep. Mglovesfun (talk) 17:13, 10 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. -- The inclusionist Ghost of WikiPedant 17:23, 10 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Set phrase. ---> Tooironic 20:41, 11 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep as set phrase. Equinox 00:32, 14 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

(Sigh.) Kept.​—msh210 (talk) 16:19, 18 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]