sleeping giant | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Someone or something with great,latentstrength.1926June, C.E. Mahaffey, “The Sleeping Giant in Education”, inThe Educational Screen, volume 5,page335:There is asleeping giantin education that is just beginning to awaken.1970,Tora! Tora! Tora!, spoken byIsoroku Yamamoto:I fear all we have done is to awaken asleeping giantand fill him with a terrible resolve.2008,BioWare,Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts,→ISBN,→OCLC, PC, scene: Systems Alliance: Military Doctrine Codex entry:The Council regards the Alliance as asleeping giant. Less than 3% of humans volunteer to serve in their military, a lower proportion than any other species.2010April 30, Sophia Tareen forthe Associated Press, “Anger over Ariz. immigration law drives US rallies”, inUSA Today‎[1], archived fromthe originalon1 May 2010:Angered by a controversial Arizona immigration law, tens of thousands of protesters[…]rallied in cities nationwide[…]."I want to thank the governor of Arizona because she's awakened asleeping giant," said labor organizer John Delgado, who attended a rally in New York where authorities estimated 6,500 gathered.2012September, Tom Zoellner, “The Myth of the Latino Vote”, inThe Atlantic‎[2]:Bruce Merrill, a professor emeritus at Arizona State University who has worked as an Arizona pollster for four decades, is skeptical that the Latino “sleeping giant” will wake anytime soon.2022March 1, Noah Barkin, “Europe’s Sleeping Giant Awakens”, inThe Atlantic‎[3]:Europe’sSleeping GiantAwakens [title, referring to Germany]

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: 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: You have woken the sleeping giant.
ES: Dentro del volcán, duerme un gigante.
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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