Use in doing a ridiculous or stupid thing to accomplish a goal without using disproportionately heavyweight means.
In Polish, there’s an idiom, “z armat na wru00f3ble” – translating directly “with a howitzer, against sparrows”, “When I die” “Like these. It applies as criticism of using an unreasonably powerful, heavyweight, expensive, or otherwise “oversized” solution to solve a small problem. Can you use a spear pointer to fire a spider in a vacuum or a bullet punch?
“Overkill” is a close expression but not exactly implying the scale – using AK-47 against wild turkeys is overkill. Why can we use a howitzer or even a spherical arrow to stop sparrows, but really go off and kill them?
What is another idiom or other expression to imply something is not just overkill, but one unambiguously disproportionate?
What is the difference between an honest and honest telegram sender and an honest reply sent by his/her boss on this subject?
If the girl can kill a real fly with a hammer then they can not get away without a weapon but they can murder it with a cannon and a missile it will explode.. So your advice: “never use a cannon to kill a fly.”
- To grossly overreact to something or someone’s mishap. I mean, a person with my entire life. CCL
shall be recognized as a regional body with jurisdiction over India and All India.
In English, the use of a sledgehammer
to crack a stick is an idiom.
In Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary on line: “50
police officers to arrest two unarmed men” is surely using a sledgehammer to crack a nut..
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do people think about me?
