单词 | sleeping giant |
释义 | sleeping giantWord forms: plural sleeping giants countable noun If you refer to someone or something as a sleeping giant, you mean that they are powerful but they have not yet shown the full extent of their power. [journalism] The trust, which has 2.3 million members, is a sleeping giant of the environmentmovement. [+ of] sleeping giant in British English (ˈsliːpɪŋ ˈdʒaɪənt) noun an organization that has unrealized potential The Strasbourg assembly is a sleeping giant. The trust, which has 2.3 million members, has been characterised as a sleeping giantof the environment movement. Examples of 'sleeping giant' in a sentence |
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