"pound" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- "800 pound gorilla" is an American English expression for a person or organization so powerful that it can act without regard to the rights of others or the law.
- At Brookfield Zoo in Chicago, a small toddler fell into a pit with the 500 pound gorillas.
- An 800 pound gorilla escapes from the zoo one day.
- "That'll just make him mad and then we'll have an angry 800 pound gorilla down on the ground with us."
- Bankruptcy," Miller said in a recent speech in Houston, "is like dancing with an 800 pound gorilla.
- It's easy to get skittish when the 800 pound gorilla arrives.
- They soon come across Joe Young, a 12-foot tall, 2,200 pound gorilla.
- "I'm going to treat it like the proverbial eight hundred pound gorilla, sir," the captain said.
- RTD was essentially the "800 pound gorilla" as far as public transportation in Southern California was concerned.
- It is the 800 pound gorilla in the room that no one can, or wants, to ignore.
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