Is the expression "Bring a gun" an English ideom? Can it mean something else in your language than telling a person to come with a weapon?
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Well, in the business world, one would tell an associate to bring a gun to a meeting, meaning be sure to have someone come that can make a decision or has some clout. The gun is the boss or someone with decision making power, and it can be adversarial or not, depending on the situation.
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I'm English and I've never heard the expression. I would say that anything involving guns is far more likely to have its origin in the USA.
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It's a suggestive comment meant to imply "there's trouble ahead." Sort of like when the non-fisherman on the boat gets the first view of the shark in Jaws and tells the captain, "You're gonna need a bigger boat." In the somewhat jocular sense in which it would probably be delivered, it most assuredly DOES NOT mean "bring a weapon". But it does mean, "be prepared to defend yourself" (but not in a physical sense of bodily attack).
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