some pumpkins

English

Alternative forms

some punkins

Noun

some pumpkins pl (plural only)

(US, idiomatic) A person or thing of consequence.
Antonym: small potatoes
- June 21, 1848, N.Y. Herald
  General Cass is some pumpkins, and will do the needful in the office line, if he is elected.
- 1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Poet and the Peasant”, in Strictly Business‎:
  I’ve just run down from Ulster County to look at the town, bein’ that the hayin’s over with. Gosh! but it’s a whopper. I thought Poughkeepsie was some punkins^[sic]; but this here town is five times as big.

References

Thornton, Richard H. An American Glossary. Francis & Co., 1912.
Jonathon Green (2024) “some pumpkins n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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