sleeping giant

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone or something with great, latent strength. idiomatic
    — There is a sleeping giant in education that is just beginning to awaken.

词形变化

sleeping giants plural

词源

A metaphor, maybe derived from Gulliver's Travels (1726), and made popular by the 1970 film Tora! Tora! Tora!, see quotations.
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