use a sledgehammer to crack a nut

"That would be like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut," he said.

Of course the system needs to improve but using a sledgehammer to crack a nut simply will not work.

This activity is commonly referred to as "using a sledgehammer to crack a nut."

Using a sledgehammer to crack a nut, no?

Would it not be prudent to see how it works before we use a sledgehammer to crack a nut?

The principle of proportionality - do not use a sledgehammer to crack a nut - is straightforward logic.

We need to diagnose the true state of the stocks precisely and accurately, because otherwise we could be using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

Mr President, the Commission has submitted a proposal on the common fisheries policy and, once again, we find ourselves using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

in writing. - This legislation has the EU written all over it - a classic case of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

NB I think you're right about genetic diversity, but the Bible story is so silly, I you're really using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

At the operational level planning tasks will be simpler and there is less need to look for complex procedures as it would be like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

It is time that we learnt from our mistakes and adopted effective and appropriate measures, which can be complied with without trying to use a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

in writing. - Using CCCTB to combat double taxation is like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

De Courcy, using a sledgehammer to crack a nut, concentrated 6,000 infantry, seven artillery batteries and three squadrons of cavalry for the October 1885 Thanh May campaign.

I should like to point out the following so that we avoid using a sledgehammer to crack a nut by succumbing to the risk of making the scope of the directive so vast that it becomes ineffectual.

In particular, one of the appeal judges, Justice V. K. Rajah, expressed to one of the lawyers representing Goh's insurers NTUC Income that "you used a sledgehammer to crack a nut, when all you needed was a nutcracker."

Most of Wallace's inventions look not unlike the designs of W. Heath Robinson and Rube Goldberg, and Nick Park has said of Wallace that all his inventions are designed around the principle of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.