big voice
n.— «As they filed out of the bunker after the first attack, marines pulled off their gas masks and steadied their nerves with their first few breaths of fresh air. As one marine put it: “You know, I’m pretty p—ed at that Big Voice right now.”» —“Saddam’s first shot: Rattling the Marines” by Mark Mazzetti, Julian E. Barnes in Camp Commando, Kuwait U.S. News & World Report Mar. 20, 2003. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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