800-pound gorilla

Attested since at least 1971, from a riddle: "Where does an 800-pound gorilla sleep?" / "Anywhere it wants."

• "Q: Where does an 800-pound gorilla sleep? A: Wherever it wants!"
• "Back then, the mayor was an 800-pound gorilla in this town."
• "When it comes to the lucrative search market, Google, not Microsoft, is the 800-pound gorilla."
• "The thing he unfortunately doesn't recognise is there is an 800-pound gorilla when it comes to major American motor sports. The 800-pound gorilla is Nascar."
• "It was poetically fitting. For almost a year, Mr. Trump has been the 800-pound gorilla whose unpredictable rampages have obsessed the news media. Now he was completing the circle by commenting on the 400-pound gorilla who briefly stole the spotlight from him for one holiday weekend."
• "Apache Spark is a cluster-computing framework. It’s the 800-pound gorilla you turn to when it’s impossible to fit your data in memory."
• "Near-synonyms: elephant in the room, emperor's new clothes"
• "The mayor's abuse of his power was an 800-pound gorilla in polite conversation."
• "However, a co-author of the new study said those arguments ignore the “800-pound gorilla”: sky-high prices everywhere."

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