800-pound gorilla

The 800-pound gorilla in the room is the housing market.

The firm clearly is considered one of the very few 800-pound gorillas in the field.

It was like taking this 800-pound gorilla off my shoulder.

The 800-pound gorilla in the “global warming” and “carbon footprint” room is people.

So far, however, nothing's being done about that 800-pound gorilla over in the corner.

It may be tough, because among issues, the economy remains the 800-pound gorilla of this election.

That question is "sitting there like an 800-pound gorilla, holding stock."

In most of these markets, Sony has become the 800-pound gorilla.

But the question, frankly, is: How does one make an 800-pound gorilla move in the right direction?

Now, the 800-pound gorilla of Internet retail is expanding in the business.

China sees itself as the 800-pound gorilla that should be able to sit wherever it wants.

We see China as the 800-pound gorilla that needs to be house-broken.

Many buyers would go straight to Amazon.com, the 800-pound gorilla of online video sales.

He looked like a man unloading an 800-pound gorilla from his back, and that's the way just about everyone else saw it.

Staffers said much debate was made over whether to ignore the 800-pound gorilla in the room.

"It just didn't make sense for the little guy to keep competing against the 800-pound gorilla.

"He never fully confronted the 800-pound gorilla in the room.

"To come up against the 800-pound gorilla, we have to provide differences in our product mix.

"Merck was always considered the 800-pound gorilla in the corner," she said.

Researchers say that television hours have long amounted to "the 800-pound gorilla" when it comes to free time.

"The 800-pound gorilla in the room is the question of maintaining American credibility," a former senior administration official said.

“Adherence is the 800-pound gorilla in the management of every chronic illness,” she wrote.

So what, ultimately, do artists in Queens think of the 800-pound gorilla arriving this summer?

In other words, he said, “the big 800-pound gorilla will remain network television.”

When you're the 800-pound gorilla, you don't have to make potentially costly compromises.