pack a hard punch informal
pack a wallop informal

Though less reassuring and not as dramatically coherent as "Hotel Rwanda," it still packs a hard punch.

Sleeker than the original, this Firepower actually has fewer weapons but seems to pack a harder punch with the weapons still on board.

These are the names that give the show cachet - a Rembrandt in Bridgeport packs a harder punch than a Rembrandt in New Haven or Manhattan.

But Agassi doesn't pack the same punch he used to, and while he's been off on his various sabbaticals, the rest of the tennis crowd, Rafter included, has started packing a harder punch.

Moreover there is an iron fist in the velvet glove and Tanith Lee packs a hard punch; for just below the surface of heraldic hyperbole and magical metaphor lurks the image of the monstrous woman.

For another, even at this scale it packs a wallop.

"If anything, this shows that strikes still pack a wallop."

But she definitely packs a wallop when it comes to singing.

This is not the fault of the score, which can still pack a wallop.

For someone so petite, she really managed to pack a wallop.

For such a small word, it packs a wallop.

His sexuality packed a wallop that was impossible to ignore.

Even in this form, the group packs a wallop, musically and emotionally.

And yet it packs a wallop, leaving behind a touch of heartache.

Her dainty foot, though little and beautiful, packed a wallop of pressure!

Good works packing a wallop are mixed with less good ones.

Though shallower than the 1982 recession, this one still packs a wallop.

For a small country, the Netherlands packs a wallop on the architectural scene worldwide.

It's not the world's best sounding engine, but it packs a wallop that few can match.

But police guns packed a wallop that Terry's weapon didn't have.

She wasn't back to full strength, but she still packed a wallop.

Many of these ingredients pack a wallop, so cooks must learn precisely how to use them, and in which combinations.

"She packs a wallop for young people, and that is where popular culture really validates good design.

And the charge of the white brigade.the wallabies that really pack a wallop.

He can pack a wallop when he wants to."

And little old Pluto packs a wallop, too.

Packs a wallop and good for what ails you!"

The curtains are tomato-red, a rich vibrant color that would make almost any material pack a wallop.

It packed a wallop, this wave; it disturbed everything in its path.

But they packed a wallop in this iconic suburb, which prides itself on giving children every advantage.