hired gun: meaning & examples
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Meanings:
- A person employed to use armed force or violence on behalf of an employer; a mercenary or enforcer.
Examples
BetaThe hired gun waited outside the warehouse, ready to intervene if things went wrong.
El sicario contratado esperaba fuera del almacén, listo para intervenir si algo salía mal.
During the conflict, the army employed several hired guns to carry out covert operations.
Durante el conflicto, el ejército empleó varios mercenarios para llevar a cabo operaciones encubiertas.
He was known as a hired gun who didn’t hesitate to use violence to enforce his employer’s will.
Era conocido como un sicario que no dudaba en usar la violencia para imponer la voluntad de su empleador.
Authorities arrested a hired gun suspected of involvement in multiple armed robberies.
Las autoridades arrestaron a un sicario sospechoso de estar involucrado en varios robos a mano armada.
- A professional hired to perform a specific, often aggressive or highly skilled task for an employer, especially to advocate, litigate, campaign, or otherwise advance the employer's interests.
Examples
BetaThe politician hired a gun lawyer to aggressively defend him during the scandal.
El político contrató a un abogado profesional para que lo defendiera agresivamente durante el escándalo.
When the company faced a tough negotiation, they brought in a hired gun to secure the best deal.
Cuando la empresa enfrentó una negociación difícil, contrataron a un experto para conseguir el mejor trato.
She’s a hired gun in the courtroom, known for winning difficult cases with her sharp advocacy.
Ella es una profesional contratada en la sala del tribunal, conocida por ganar casos difíciles con su aguda defensa.
Examples:
- EN: You're only a hired gun.ES: Tu eres solo un pistolero contratado.
- EN: I'm no hired gun hand.ES: No soy pistolero a sueldo.
- EN: Without him, those hired gun-hands won't fight.ES: Sin él, los pistoleros a sueldo no lucharán.
- EN: He wants you to run this hired gun out of town.ES: ¿Por qué no expulsarlo del pueblo?
- EN: Well, I never thought I'd live to see the day when a preacher and a hired gun would get married.ES: Bueno, nunca pensé que viviría para ver el día en que... un predicador y un pistolero estuvieran del mismo lado.
- EN: You know, the first time I took a job as a hired gun, a fella told me "Vin, you can't afford to care."ES: ¿ Sabes? En mi primer trabajo de pistolero a sueldo, un tipo me dijo: "Vin, no puedes preocuparte por nadie".
- EN: The boldest of these were the cattlemen, who seized the wide-open range for their own personal domain, and their law was the law of the hired gun.ES: Los más valientes eran los vaqueros, que se apoderaron del gran espacio libre y su ley era la ley de los pistoleros.
- EN: 1st hired gun for Volfoni!ES: Primer gatillo de los Volfoni.
- EN: For the reason bein' that there's a hired gun if ever I seen one.ES: Nunca había visto a nadie con esa pinta.
- EN: Maybe just long enough to know that he had been done in by a first-rate hired gun.ES: ¿A sueldo? ¿A qué se refiere?
- EN: That, sir, is a hired gun... called Chuka.ES: Ese, Señor es un pistolero que.. ...se llama Chuka
- EN: I just can't make it as a hired gun in the west anymore.ES: Ya no puedo dedicarme a pistolero por aquí.
- EN: Wasn't that Billy Turpin, uh, the new hired gun for the Two Eagle?ES: ¿El nuevo pistolero a sueldo de "Las dos águilas"?
- EN: Terreray's been a hired gun.ES: Will fue pistolero profesional.
- EN: Hawk don't trust a hired gun at his back.ES: A Hawk no le gusta tener un mercenario a la espalda.
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