Re: Examples wanted: How do you say this?

 > Carsten Becker wrote:
 > > [1] I didn't find a translation for "mit Kanonen auf Spatzen
 > > schießen" in my dictionary. It means that you use all the power
 > > of a method for something for which an easier method would have
 > > worked as well, maybe even better.
 >
 > The Engl. idiom involves using some large weapon (I forget what,
 > offhand :-((( ) to kill a mosquito.
 >

I'd guess "howitzer", but Google returns more results for
"cannon". (Not very many of either, so perhaps there's a canonical
weapon I'm not thinking of, but it isn't "bomb" or "bazooka".)  I'm
more familiar with "using a sledgehammer to crack a nut".