big gun

noun

, Slang.

1. an influential or important person or thing:

   He's a big gun in science.

big gun

noun

1. informal.
   an important or influential person

Example Sentences

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.

From Popular-Science

Yet 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.

From Ozy

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.

From Washington Blade

Jackass penguins talk like peopleWe’re pulling out the big guns, people.

From Popular-Science

It 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.

From TechCrunch

It was the big gun atrocity of the day for the 24 hours before the Roswell shooting.

From The Daily Beast

He is either going to go out in a big gun battle or lay low.

From The Daily Beast

The breakfast hour was enlivened by a continual peppering of small shot from her, varied by a big gun from her father.

From Project Gutenberg

It was the duck board, as much as the rifle and the big gun, which enabled the Canadians to win at Passchendaele last November.

From Project Gutenberg

Now they were abreast the famous Golden Tower, and a big gun was fired at them; but the shot went wide.

From Project Gutenberg

Didn't you bring two gentlemen on board, and 80 didn't one of them want to measure the carriage of the big gun?

From Project Gutenberg

What to do with his horse was a question, for the report of the big gun would set him crazy.

From Project Gutenberg

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