heavy artillery

n. powerful or persuasive persons or things. (The same as big gun.) Finally, the mayor brought out the heavy artillery and quieted things down.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Vicente	bee-THEN-te (Spanish), bee-SEN-te (Latin American Spanish)	Spanish, Portuguese
SlÁIne	SLAW-na	Irish
Silviu	-	Romanian
Drystan	-	Welsh
Xabi	-	Basque
Zola (2)	-	Southern African, Zulu