the big guns

plural noun

informal

: the most powerful people, companies, organizations, etc.

They called in the big guns to deal with the problem.

Examples of the big guns in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But even with the big guns sitting on the bench, England was easily the more offensively productive team early, with Ezri Konsa adding another off of a corner in the 18th minute. — Matt Reigle, FOXNews.com, 19 July 2026

Its staff spent years painstakingly cleaning the big guns and coating them in paint and wax to prevent rusting and corrosion. — CBS News, 4 June 2026

The streamer pulled in all of the big guns with top talent on stage including Millie Bobby Brown, Florence Pugh and The Hunting Wives’ Brittany Snow and Malin Akerman. — Peter White, Deadline, 13 May 2026

Sending Washington wasn’t exactly sending the big guns. — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 May 2026

Rhymes for the big guns

• overruns
• buns
• chins
• khans
• nuns
• ones
• puns
• runs
• shins
• shuns
• sions
• sons