big gun
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Big-gun teaching parades; trigger-teaching stays in the tent and issues orders.
From Sunday-School Success A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and Officers by Wells, Amos R.
Big-gun teaching develops the teacher; trigger-teaching develops the scholar.
From Sunday-School Success A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and Officers by Wells, Amos R.
The Big-gun, beg pardon, I mean the Queen, came herself, with some sort of a body-guard in an enclosed car, that went away after it'd landed them in the woods.
From Red-Robin by Richards, Harriet Roosevelt