"sleeping giant" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "A metaphor, maybe derived from Gulliver's Travels (1726), and made popular by the 1970 film Tora! Tora! Tora!, see quotations.",
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          "ref": "1926 June, C.E. Mahaffey, “The Sleeping Giant in Education”, in The Educational Screen, volume 5, page 335:",
          "text": "There is a sleeping giant in education that is just beginning to awaken.",
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          "ref": "1970, Tora! Tora! Tora!, spoken by Isoroku Yamamoto:",
          "text": "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.",
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          "ref": "2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Systems Alliance: Military Doctrine Codex entry:",
          "text": "The Council regards the Alliance as a sleeping giant. Less than 3% of humans volunteer to serve in their military, a lower proportion than any other species.",
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          "ref": "2010 April 30, Sophia Tareen for the Associated Press, “Anger over Ariz. immigration law drives US rallies”, in USA Today, archived from the original on 2010-05-01:",
          "text": "Angered by a controversial Arizona immigration law, tens of thousands of protesters[…] rallied in cities nationwide[…].\n\"I want to thank the governor of Arizona because she's awakened a sleeping giant,\" said labor organizer John Delgado, who attended a rally in New York where authorities estimated 6,500 gathered.",
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          "ref": "2012 September, Tom Zoellner, “The Myth of the Latino Vote”, in The Atlantic:",
          "text": "Bruce Merrill, a professor emeritus at Arizona State University who has worked as an Arizona pollster for four decades, is skeptical that the Latino “sleeping giant” will wake anytime soon.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 March 1, Noah Barkin, “Europe’s Sleeping Giant Awakens”, in The Atlantic:",
          "text": "Europe’s Sleeping Giant Awakens [title, referring to Germany]",
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        "Someone or something with great, latent strength."
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        "(idiomatic) Someone or something with great, latent strength."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "let sleeping dogs lie"
        }
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        "Tora! Tora! Tora!"
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          "text": "Angered by a controversial Arizona immigration law, tens of thousands of protesters[…] rallied in cities nationwide[…].\n\"I want to thank the governor of Arizona because she's awakened a sleeping giant,\" said labor organizer John Delgado, who attended a rally in New York where authorities estimated 6,500 gathered.",
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