What is the meaning of the sentence? "I'm after rather a big bug in the smuggling line". This is a sentence from Agatha Cristie's "Death in the clouds".

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Yakov

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To be after something = to be looking for something

A "big bug" is an important, wealthy person, so I guess the sentence means that the speaker is pursuing a smuggler with a high rank in the criminal hierarchy.

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