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big gun

noun as in dignitary

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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.

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When his deportation flight landed in El Salvador, he saw tanks and officials dressed in all black, carrying big guns.

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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.

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"It was far from just Andrew Tate. It was not those big guns of the manosphere," he says.

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South Africa were still packed with big guns and we had just won the Ashes the previous summer.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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