Powerful individual (3,4)

I believe the answer is:

big shot

(Other definitions for big shot that I've seen before include "Head honcho?" , "VIP, informally" , "Colloquially a very important person - quite noisy" , "Important influential person" , "somebody" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.

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