big gun
an influential or important person or thing: He's a big gun in science.
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Listen, wrinkles are serious business and if you’re aiming to go against Father Time on this one, you’d better bring out the big guns.
7 things you can do to actually prevent wrinkles | Sandra Gutierrez | July 13, 2021 | Popular-ScienceYet the military has shifted its strategy in recent decades from big guns, planes and tanks to wielding American force via small strikes by special ops units.
That’s where I bring in the big guns – the landscape architects – to design a plan and teach me how to keep the flowers from dying.
Jackass penguins talk like peopleWe’re pulling out the big guns, people.
2020 isn’t all bad. Here are 13 science stories to be thankful for. | Rachel Feltman, Sara Chodosh | November 26, 2020 | Popular-ScienceIt has also brought out its lobbying big guns — former UK deputy PM and ex-MEP Nick Clegg — to try to pressure EU lawmakers over the issue.
Europe puts out advice on fixing international data transfers that’s cold comfort for Facebook | Natasha Lomas | November 11, 2020 | TechCrunch
It was the big gun atrocity of the day for the 24 hours before the Roswell shooting.
With Guns, the Threatened Can Quickly Become the Threat | David Frum | January 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe is either going to go out in a big gun battle or lay low.
The breakfast hour was enlivened by a continual peppering of small shot from her, varied by a big gun from her father.
Alone | Marion HarlandIt was the duck board, as much as the rifle and the big gun, which enabled the Canadians to win at Passchendaele last November.
The Glory of The Coming | Irvin S. CobbNow they were abreast the famous Golden Tower, and a big gun was fired at them; but the shot went wide.
Fair Margaret | H. Rider HaggardDidn't you bring two gentlemen on board, and 80 didn't one of them want to measure the carriage of the big gun?
Within The Enemy's Lines | Oliver OpticWhat to do with his horse was a question, for the report of the big gun would set him crazy.
Within The Enemy's Lines | Oliver Optic
British Dictionary definitions for big gun
informal an important or influential person
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