(simile, humorous) Useless; pointless.

(simile, informal) Thoroughly useless.

(idiomatic) To use significantly excessive force to carry out an action; to do something overzealously.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of use a sledgehammer to crack a nut

simple past tense and past participle of use a sledgehammer to crack a nut

Indicates that the speaker wants to communicate with someone via the interlocutor's telephone, if it is available.

Alternative form of there's no point crying over spilt milk

(chiefly US, South Africa, Canada, euphemistic, interrogative) Used to ask if one's interlocutor needs to urinate or defecate.

A group of islands in the Caribbean that is a territory of the United States. Official name: Virgin Islands of the United States.

Unit of measure for areas, defined as 43,560 square feet,https://web.archive.org/web/20041204052555/http://ts.nist.gov/ts/htdocs/230/235/appxc/appxc.htm or 4,046.8564224 square meters. A square mile has 640 acres.