big gun
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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“If the government decides to use big guns and bring back the battleships, I’m not getting involved.”
TV presenter Richard Hammond says he had to "bring out the big guns", or his mum, at his car workshop, the focus of his new TV show.
From BBC
I know Ruben Amorim made eight changes but he threw the big guns on in the end and you don't know what sort of impact that loss will have across the club.
From BBC
"It was far from just Andrew Tate. It was not those big guns of the manosphere," he says.
From BBC
South Africa were still packed with big guns and we had just won the Ashes the previous summer.
From BBC
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