| sleeping giant | дремлющий гигант (If you refer to someone or something as a sleeping giant, you mean that they are powerful but they have not yet shown the full extent of their power; one that has great but unrealized or newly emerging power; e.g.: The trust, which has 2.3 million members, has been characterised as a sleeping giant of the environment movement; The huge country to the south is a sleeping giant, waiting for its chance to become sufficiently industrialized to have real prosperity; The U.S. was a sleeping giant at the outbreak of both world wars Taras) |
