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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a big cannon" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a large artillery piece or metaphorically to indicate something powerful or impactful.
Example: "The army deployed a big cannon to the battlefield, showcasing their military strength."
Alternatives: "a large cannon" or "a massive cannon".
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"He possesses a big cannon.
Hanging between the arms of a giant yellow fork mount, it looked like a big cannon capable of shooting Volkswagen Beetles through the slit roof at God or Martians.
Those wimps also own a big cannon, which they use to shoot Wrinkles off the ship.
We would be trapped eternally in limbo between three inadequate utopias: British Empire 2.0; Making Everything Like It Was In Around 2001 Again, and; Maybe If We Shot Everyone Who Constantly Tweets At Jeremy Corbyn To Do More To Stop Brexit Out Of A Big Cannon All Our Problems Would Solve Themselves.
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The Army's big cannon, a decades-old gun called the Paladin, was too slow to keep up with the Bradley vehicles and the Abrams tanks during attack.
"All of a sudden down the street came some big cannon, the first any of us had seen painted, that is, camouflaged.
Count the cannonballs — 48 — near a big black cannon aimed at Staten Island directly across New York Bay.
As Basilio, Daniel Borowski had a big loose cannon of a booming bass voice, impressive but not always on target.
"Someone's got a big, new cannon," he tweeted.
At six o'clock they came with a big water cannon, and after that, they could arrest anybody they wanted who was sleeping on the street.
"The Fed shot the big cannon today," said Don Galante, chief investment officer at MF Global.
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