heavy hitter | Idiomator

Meaning: (baseball)A player with a favorablebatting averagewho is especially good at hitting the ball deep into theoutfieldor farther.1991November 20, Claire Smith, “On Baseball: Bonilla Barnstorming In Search of Best Deal”, inNew York Times, retrieved20 August 2014:This year'sheavy hitteris Bobby Bonilla, the Pirates' slugger who's seeking to hit the biggest home run of his life.2010December 30, Associated Press, “MLB Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew has esophageal cancer”, inNew York Daily News, retrieved20 August 2014:The congenialheavy hitteris one of the most beloved players in Twins history, as much for his gentle and approachable nature off the field as for the towering home runs he hit during his playing days.; (sports,by extension)In any sport, a strong, physical player who is particularlyeffective.1967November 6,Hector (Toe) Blake, “Keep Your Eye On An Exciting Game”, inSports Illustrated, retrieved20 August 2014:On defense I always try to pair a good body-checker with a sound, steady player; for example, Ted Harris, aheavy hitter, with J. C. Tremblay, a clever defenseman.2009July 1, Alan Burge, “Two Texans players on list of the 50 top-earning American athletes”, inAXS Entertainment Sports, retrieved20 August 2014:This is aheavy hitterlist including the likes of Tiger Woods, LeBron James, and Alex Rodriguez.; (idiomatic)A person of considerableimportancewho is a majordecisionmakerorcapableachiever; an especiallysignificantorganization or an especiallyfunctionalobject.1993January 28,Rupert Cornwell, “Hillary called to cure ills of US health system”, inIndependent, UK, retrieved20 August 2014:Even Mrs Clinton, theheavy hitter, will need every ounce of her formidable powers.2013February 20, Sean Williams, “3 Stocks to Get on Your Watchlist”, inSeattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved20 August 2014:For Yamana, its El Penon mine in Chile is itsheavy hitter, with production expectations of 450,000 to 500,000 ounces per year.2014February 15,John L. Allen Jr., “Legionaries are Pope Francis’ problem now”, inBoston Globe, retrieved20 August 2014:Müller used this speech, delivered in the presence of Cardinal Angelo Scola of Milan, anotherheavy-hitterin the Catholic world, to draw some lines in the sand.

Examples:

EN: - You're a pretty heavy hitter in my league, big guy.
ES: - Eres un bateador bastante pesado en mi liga, grandote.
EN: I'll get you a heavy hitter.
ES: Te conseguiré a un peso pesado.
EN: How can a small hospital like Ravenbrook afford a heavy hitter like, um, Howlett?
ES: ¿Cómo puede un hospitalucho como Ravenbrook costear Un peso pesado como, um, Howlett?
EN: The heavy hitter's Roy Forbes.
ES: Bueno, el peso pesado es Roy Forbes.
EN: Levonne is gonna have me in front of every heavy hitter in the community -- the black press, everyone -- and he's gonna ask me that same question.
ES: Levonne me va a poner en frente de cada peso pesado de la comunidad, la prensa negra, todo el mundo - y es él quien me va a hacer esa la misma pregunta.
EN: His uncle's a heavy hitter with the Pleasant Avenue bunch.
ES: Su tío es de la banda de la Avda. Pleasant.
EN: So here in the ninth, the Athletics have opted to bring in reliever... Tom Ruddy to pitch to Angels heavy hitter, Ray Mitchell.
ES: En el noveno, los Atléticos optan por traer al líder Tom Runny para Ianzarle al bateador Ray Mitchell.
EN: She expected me to be some kind of heavy hitter by now, ensconced in a penthouse with a rich husband and 2.3 children.
ES: Ella esperaba que ahora fuera una especie de triunfadora, instalada en un dúplex con un marido rico y dos hijos.
EN: Whoever's murdering the drug lords is a real heavy hitter.
ES: El asesino de los narcos es un criminal muy pesado.
EN: Smallville was a heavy hitter. It just lost the drive to stay competitive.
ES: Smallville era un peso pesado, pero perdió su competitividad.
EN: A heavy hitter like him is gonna drag us into court and make our lives miserable.
ES: Un peso pesado como él nos llevaría a juicio y nos haría trizas.
EN: Getting him to roll on a heavy hitter... for a misdemeanor marijuana charge.
ES: Lograr que delate a un pez gordo por un delito menor de posesión de marihuana.
EN: I thought Danville was a heavy hitter.
ES: - pensaba que Danville era un bateador de fuerza.
EN: A heavy hitter.
ES: Es un hueso duro de roer.
EN: Real heavy hitter.
ES: Un tirador de los pesados.

Note: the examples for non latin scripts have a high likelihood of mistakes, we do not own any of this data and it is sourced from Wiktionary, the NLLB database and Opensubtitles. Please help us improve this by contributing correct examples. We will be working to fix this issue over time however it is a bigger issue due to the the difficulties in dealing with non latin scripts and grammatical structures(non-romantic/european languages have lower resources as well ).