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big guns

大炮,大枪,大型枪械,大型枪支

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Slang.

    • : an influential or important person or thing: He's a big gun in science.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as incelebrity
as inchief

Examples

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • In that photo, Merabet has a big smile that spreads across his whole face and lights up his eyes.

  • The Big Five banks dubbed too big to fail, are 35 percent bigger than they were when the meltdown was triggered.

  • Their three-day scientific outing was paid for by Epstein and was big success.

  • I really wanted Trenchmouth to succeed and at the time wished we were as big as Green Day.

  • The big slug happened to hit the suspect in the street, passing through his arm and then striking Police Officer Andrew Dossi.

  • The big room at King's Warren Parsonage was already fairly well filled.

  • Sol laughed out of his whiskers, with a big, loose-rolling sound, and sat on the porch without waiting to be asked.

  • There were at least a dozen ladies seated round the big table at the Parsonage.

  • I pictured him as slim and young looking, smooth-faced, with golden curly hair, and big brown eyes.

  • Big Reginald took their lives at pool, and pocketed their half-crowns in an easy genial way, which almost made losing a pleasure.