smoking gun

“We’re hoping to find a smoking gun,” Haines said, but “it’s challenging to do that.”

While Kate’s decision to go to Martin’s house appears to be the smoking gun in Jeanette’s case, the show itself doesn’t reinforce that victim blaming.

We have no hard evidence to support the lab leak idea, let alone a smoking gun to validate that hypothesis.

Researchers also have found coronavirus fragments that are similar to SARS-CoV-2 in bats native to southeast Asia, but no smoking gun yet.

It deliberately exaggerates what they present as smoking gun over-credited projects.

The concept is that the use of human embryonic cells in the manufacture of vaccines is the smoking gun—a major cause of autism.

It was an interesting piece of information for those watching the investigation closely—but nowhere approaching a smoking gun.

For them, the smoking gun was the personality—not the smokes.

Within the 907 documents Wildstein turned over was a smoking gun.

To an extent, but I think only to an extent—because if he is exonerated, it will happen only because no one found a smoking gun.

He was a good judge of men, that eagle-faced major; he knew that the slightest move with hostile intent would mean a smoking gun.

With a proud smile the old woman stood the smoking gun against the wall and straightened her cap.

Jim thrust his smoking gun into his belt and caught Craig by the arm.

He looked up and beheld the girl about whom he had been thinking, every muscle tense, a smoking gun still against her shoulder.

He saw Campbell standing on the hill waving his still smoking gun.