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big deal!

informal

Definition

said when you do not think that what someone has said or done is important or special: "I ran five miles this morning." "Big deal! I ran ten."Expressions meaning 'it isn't important to me'
(Definition of big deal! from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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