big gun
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- noun
Synonyms for big gun
an important influential person
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Sometimes there are big guns in the city that speak back, and some of us are killed, and then there is all the more grazing for those that are left.
"Do you gentlemen of the screw-gun battery feel inclined to eat when you are being fired at with big guns, and Two Tails is behind you?"
"If I could do that and nothing else, you wouldn't be needed to pull the big guns at all.
Then the big guns came by, and I saw Two Tails and two other elephants harnessed in line to a forty-pounder siege gun, while twenty yoke of oxen walked behind.
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A WITNESS has claimed he saw a man fire a "big gun" at another outside a busy Co-op supermarket in Barnet, with school children just yards away in the street.
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However, as intimidating as a big gun may be, there are many instances in a woman's life where carrying a big gun is impractical or prohibited.
I encourage every Big Gun to reserve March 13-16 for NAA's annual Capitol Conference.
"Even minus the big gun we can give the infantry a lot of support."
Where's the bulldog, tough as nails persona that somehow seems to taint everyone's conception of the prototypical, if not stereotypical, corporate big gun lawyer?
Then they hammered it down with the big gun. The golden oldie.
A: I could write a year's worth of columns addressing "big gun" problems.
to do the impossible--come up with a defense that might spike the big gun or at least slow him down.
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