great gun
/ˈɡreɪt ˌɡʌn/noun
1A firearm or gun of such size that it needs to be mounted for firing; a piece of heavy ordnance. Now historical.
2 Figurative and in figurative contexts. A powerful or impressive person; a distinguished or eminent person.
3 great guns!: used as an exclamation expressing surprise or disbelief.
Phrases
to go great guns
Origin
Late Middle English; earliest use found in Geoffrey Chaucer (c1340–1400), poet and administrator. From great + gun.
- what someone is driving at
- what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander (also what’s good for the goose is good for the gander)
- what's the betting?
- what's the damage?
- what's the odds?
- what's up?
- what's what
- what's with ——?
- what's your (or the) game?
- what's your pleasure?
- what's your poison?
- what the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over
- what the hell
- what the hey
- what with
- what-you-see-is-what-you-get
- what you will
- whaup
- wheal
- wheat
- wheat belt
- wheat bunt
- wheat cocky
- wheatear
- wheaten