Antonyms for big-gun


Grammar : Adj


Definition of big-gun

  • As in influential : adj effective, powerful
  • As in eminent : adj very important; famous
Example sentences :
  • The war services were honeycombed with men who were big-gun experts.
  • Extract from : « Our Army at the Front » by Heywood Broun
  • Big-gun teaching is amusing; trigger-teaching is suggestive.
  • Extract from : « Sunday-School Success » by Amos R. Wells
  • I am sure tens of thousands of rifle-cartridges were fired at them, and hundreds of rounds of big-gun shells.
  • Extract from : « In the Russian Ranks » by John Morse
  • A nineteen-year-old big-gun pointer sits atop of his bicycle saddle, and the enemy fleet is swinging into range.
  • Extract from : « The U-boat hunters » by James B. Connolly
  • In big-gun teaching the teacher thinks; in trigger-teaching the teacher thinks how to get his scholars to think.
  • Extract from : « Sunday-School Success » by Amos R. Wells
  • Big-gun teaching develops the teacher; trigger-teaching develops the scholar.
  • Extract from : « Sunday-School Success » by Amos R. Wells
  • Big-gun teaching parades; trigger-teaching stays in the tent and issues orders.
  • Extract from : « Sunday-School Success » by Amos R. Wells
  • On the contrary, the trigger-teacher has to put ten times more of himself into every lesson than the big-gun teacher.
  • Extract from : « Sunday-School Success » by Amos R. Wells
  • Let no one pass from big-gun teaching to trigger-teaching with the idea that the latter will prove the easier.
  • Extract from : « Sunday-School Success » by Amos R. Wells
  • They reckon Tosher is push-and-go stuff, and want to rig me out as a big-gun in the fightin business.
  • Extract from : « John Brown » by Captain R. W. Campbell

Synonyms for big-gun

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