• to bulk large, to play an important part
• he thinks himself somebody
• inconsequential, niggling, that's neither here nor there, to be of no consequence, unimportant
• matter of the last importance
• wages at the rate of three pounds per week
• position of the highest importance
• he's a somebody, he's somebody
• wages at the rate of three pounds per week
• bumptious, bustling, fussy, officious, opinionated, pragmatic, pragmatical, prissy, self-important