One retired bigwig believes the threat is hollow.
A person of high status and influence; an important person, a bigwig.
As a bigwig in the locality, Mr. Zhang has to be careful in what he says and does.
He is a head of a feudal faction, which makes him cruel and incorrigible, and a financial bigwig, which backs up his character.
If a local bigwig behaves so appallingly that the resulting protests are heard in Beijing, the party may cut him down to size.
During the festival this year, a bigwig of the Singapore Tourism Board boldly declared its new mission - make Singapore a world culinary capital.
Government ethics laws, he said, aim to prevent corporate titans from paying big money to influence politicians - but they don't ban the President from buying a bigwig a sandwich.
At a recent Harvard colloquium, a bigwig from one of the large consultancies told his audience of star professors that the only person he valued at the school was the admissions officer.
