Big cheese steak centrally in French meat wraps (8)
I believe the answer is:
eminence
'big cheese' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'steak centrally in french meat wraps' is the wordplay.
'centrally' says to take the centre.
'in french' becomes 'en' ('in' in French).
'meat' becomes 'mince' (mince is a meat product).
'wraps' means one lot of letters goes inside another (inserted letters get wrapped up).
The middle of 'steak' is 'e'.
'en' put into 'mince' is 'minence'.
'e'+'minence'='EMINENCE'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for eminence that I've seen before include "Distinction - high ground" , "Title for cardinal" , "Distinction; rising ground" , "High status importance" , "nobility?" .)