pop gun

I was thinking of Christopher Robin's little pop gun in Winnie the Pooh.

You get out your little Christopher Robin pop gun and you hold it to yourself and you say, "I am going to call Caroline. I'm just going to call her. I'm going to tell her how close I am. Then if it doesn't help, I'll have a cool, refreshing bottle of gin."

Programs in the Ivy League and those in the sport’s major conferences share as much in common as a pop gun and a rocket launcher, but Wednesday’s announcement still reverberated because the Ivy League had presaged broader decisions before.

From a distance — quite a distance, of some 10,000 light-years — the black hole looked like a cosmic pop gun, propelling puffs of light across the sky.

The top gun of the 2015 World Cup has been a mere pop gun four years later.