The South African Broadcasting Corporation is almost too bulky to run and now it’s going to get even bigger. The 900-pound gorilla gained formal approval from the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) last week to put on extra weight. --Mail and Guardian
"The 400-pound gorilla is North America. That's the big swing item and that's where they've got to cut costs," he said. --Reuters
Vonage, at least as of this writing, appears to be the 300-pound gorilla of VoIP companies, though they're also competing head to head with some Internet providers such as cable companies. --Canada Free Press
"Consumer spending is the 500-pound gorilla in the GDP account, so if consumer spending slows ... we'll have to accept growth will be a little weaker, it won't be the 4 percent plus that we had last year," said Chan. --Reuters
"This began as a 900-pound gorilla and is beginning to now look like a rhesus monkey," says Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University who has criticized the case in testimony before the Senate and the House of Representatives. --Business Week
"Hillary's the 800-pound gorilla in this race," Jarding said. --Delaware Online
The weakness is the same, and I say that because often times we're seen like the 900-pound gorilla. --Crain's Cleveland Business
"I would hope it would, but the thousand-pound gorilla is the Social Security issue. How you can tip the scales on that, I don't know." --Boston Globe
The spill happened early in the course and the two women found themselves upside down with a 400-pound gorilla on top of them, sliding along the ice and generating enough friction to create severe burns. --San Francisco Chronicle
Just ask the horse who helped me get rid of the 1,000-pound gorilla who resided on my spine for the past 36 months and overcame near disaster at the top of the Pimlico stretch in order to make us both winners. --News Herald
All good things must come to an end, and Best Buy is facing not increasing competition--it is the 300-pound gorilla of discount consumer electronics--but economic uncertainty. --Reuters
And if that scene (complete with the sort of gross-out corpse re-creation CSI has made all but obligatory) doesn't establish that Johnson is an unapologetic 500-pound gorilla, her boss, Assistant Police Chief Henry Pope (J.K. Simmons of Law & Order and Oz renown), casually mentions that she's a "CIA-trained interrogator" and that, while "no Miss Congeniality, she is a closer." --Houston Chronicle
"We knew Fry's is the 500-pound gorilla in sales tax revenue as far as electronics," Gittings said. "And if you listen to Fry's, they say this will be the only North County store." --North County Times
I believe this whole netted environment begins with somebody defining the architecture, building a consensus on interface and data standards, and somebody has to be the 600-pound gorilla governing them. --Military Information Technology
There are a lot of screamers that work in government, but you don't pull somebody so low down in the bureaucracy that they're completely defenseless. It's an 800-pound gorilla devouring a banana. --NPR
"Given the fact we are seen as a 500-pound gorilla that can push its weight around, I think with the Mexican government, because of immigration issues and other items with the U.S. government, we have a great deal of clout," said Ved Nanda with the University of Denver law department. --The Denver Channel
"Aren't they the 600-pound gorilla that we're not talking much about, said John Heddle of Winona. --Winona Daily News
United is just the first of the big boys to go under. In the wings are Delta, Continental and Northwest airlines. Then there is the 8,000-pound gorilla: GM. --Fauquier Times Democrat
Congratulations, General Motors--you are by far the biggest gorilla!
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4 comments:
I've always heard the expression as the "800-pound gorilla". That sounds like a reasonable weight for a gorilla. I don't know what's up with that 300-pound gorilla. It must spend a lot of time in the bathroom, puking up bananas. The 8,000-pound (4 tons!) one, on the other hand is probably covered in bed sores and too busy trying to conjur up enough energy to breathe to actually hurt anyone.
Great... something else for Richard Simmons to try and hug and them make dance to the oldies.
As the self-appointed spokesperson for "Gorillas Are People Too," let me say that the gorillas believe all this bad press is like a albatross around their neck. Capitalist pigs, go malign another species!
Great--now I'm going to hear from the Albatross Antidefamation League.
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