big gun
an influential or important person or thing:He's a big gun in science.
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How to use big gun in a sentence
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 Haggard
Didn'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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