smoking gun | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Evidence, particularly of acrime, that isdifficultorimpossibletodispute.We have a theory, but we haven't found asmoking gunyet.1992,Bruce Sterling,The Hacker Crackdown‎[2],→ISBN:When Prophet's place in Decatur, Georgia was raided in July 1989, there was the E911 Document, asmoking gun. And there was Prophet in the hands of the Secret Service, doing his best to "explain."2003January 9,Hans Blix, “Notes for Briefing the Security Council”, inUNMOVIC‎[3]:I now turn to the role and results of our current inspections. Evidently if we had found any ‘smoking gun’ we would have reported it to the Council.2005June 12, Michael Kinsley, “No Smoking Gun”, inWashington Post‎[4]:It's all over the blogosphere and Air America, the left-wing talk radio network: This is thesmoking gunof the Iraq war. It is proof positive that President Bush was determined to invade Iraq the year before he did so2021June 9, Peter Beaumont, “Leading biologist dampens his ‘smoking gun’ Covid lab leak theory”, inThe Guardian‎[5],→ISSN:A Nobel prize-winning US biologist, who has been widely quoted describing a “smoking gun” to support the thesis that Covid-19 was genetically modified and escaped from a Wuhan lab, has said he overstated the case.2023September 28, HarryBlank, “Hooking Up”, inSCP Foundation‎[6], archived fromthe originalon25 May 2024:"He can weasel out if[sic]it." Ibanez massaged her knuckles. "He can say Couch welshed on a deal, and didn't show, and that's why Karen got got. It isn't conclusive. I have another thing I can lay on him, but even the two combined won't do. We need a thirdsmoking gunif we're really gonna smoke this son of a bitch."

Examples:

EN: I've known killers caught with a smoking gun, brazenly refusing... to admit their crime, but this one beats all.
ES: He conocido asesinos negar un crimen pillados con una pistola humeante, Pero esta los supera a todos.
EN: - What you need is a smoking gun.
ES: Lo que necesitas es una pistola cargada.
EN: - What I need is a werewolf holding a smoking gun.
ES: Un hombre lobo no muere con una pistola.
EN: We're talking getting caught with a smoking gun in your hand.
ES: Se trata de que te descubran con una pistola humeante en mano.
EN: I want a smoking gun. I want it in somebody's hand.
ES: Quiero un revólver humeante, y una mano que lo sostenga.
EN: A hunter with a smoking gun between his legs is satire?
ES: ¿Un cazador con un arma entre las piernas es sátira?
EN: Your prints all over a smoking gun..
ES: Tus huellas cubren una pistola caliente.
EN: - This is the smoking gun. He's going down.
ES: - Con esto se va a hundir.
EN: Always think you have a smoking gun, till the smoke blows in your face.
ES: Siempre crees tener un as en la manga hasta que das vuelta la carta y ves otra cosa.
EN: As long as you're not at the scene of the crime with a smoking gun in your hand, you'll get away with it.
ES: Con tal de que no estés en la escena del crimen con una arma que humea en tu mano, te sales.
EN: That's about as close to a smoking gun as you can get.
ES: Es lo más parecido que hay a un arma humeante.
EN: There will be no smoking gun.
ES: Lo que yo he hecho no se puede probar.
EN: because I am the smoking gun. Now. relax. lt's all working.
ES: No habrá arma del delito, porque yo soy el arma del delito.
EN: You've been out here all weekend looking for a smoking gun.
ES: Estuvieron buscando una prueba irrefutable.
EN: The cops will find you with a smoking gun.
ES: La policía te pillará con las manos en la masa.

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