sleeping giant

Meanings:

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- A person, organization, nation, or other force that is currently inactive, unnoticed, or unassertive but possesses great potential power or influence that could be unleashed if provoked or mobilized.
- A latent or dormant power whose activation would have significant consequences.
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- A natural landform such as a hill, ridge, or mountain whose contours are said to resemble the shape of a reclining or sleeping human figure.

Examples:

EN: The sleeping giant has come to life!
ES: El gigante durmiente cobró vida.
EN: The sleeping giant awakens the city.
ES: El gigante que dormía, despertó.
EN: The sleeping giant awakes.
ES: Despierta el gigante dormido.
EN: He woke the sleeping giant.
ES: Despertóalgigante.
EN: Not a range of hills, but a sleeping giant.
ES: No una cadena de colinas sino un gigante dormido.
EN: It's a sleeping giant.
ES: Es un gigante dormido.
ES: Es un gigante dormido.
EN: We call it a sleeping giant.
ES: Lo llamamos gigante dormido.
ES: Lo llamamos gigante dormido.
EN: Two fathers whose paths would converge in a new battle, an invisible war between a silent enemy and a sleeping giant, on a scale to dwarf all historical conflicts.
ES: Dos padres cuyos caminos convergerían en una nueva batalla, una guerra invisible entre un enemigo silencioso y un gigante dormido que eclipsa todos los conflictos históricos.
EN: They have awoken a sleeping giant.
ES: Han despertado a un gigante dormido.
EN: You've just awakened a sleeping giant.
ES: Estas despertando al gigante dormido.
EN: Even before 1969 the amazing third-reef Pipeline broke once in 1963 as a result of a freak storm that awoke the sleeping giant.
ES: Incluso antes de 1969 el increible Third Reef Pipeline se rompió una vez en 1963 debido a una enorme tempestad que despertó al gigante.
EN: You have woken the sleeping giant.
ES: Dentro del volcán, duerme un gigante.
EN: I fear that you have awakened a sleeping giant, and filled him with a terrible resolve.
ES: ¡Creo que han invocado el espíritu de un ser terrible!
EN: Oh, E, don't wake a sleeping giant.
ES: Oh, E, no despiertes al gigante.
EN: When they fucked with me... they woke a sleeping giant.
ES: Cuando me jodieron, despertaron a un gigante dormido.

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