sleeping giant

短语

n. 沉睡中的巨人（指力量巨大但没有充分展示其威力的人）

发音

AU

词形变化

sleeping giants 复数 sleeping giants

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Someone or something with great, latent strength.

    习语

词源

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

来源：wiktionary