Category · 60 phrases
A list of phrases about the military and war
- A knight in shining armour
- A shot in the dark
- About turn
- Absent without leave
- Action man
- All present and correct
- Attack is the best form of defence
- Baptism of fire
- Beat a hasty retreat
- Bite the bullet
- Blood, sweat and tears
- Booby trap
- Comfort women
- Die-hard
- Don't burn your bridges
- Drummed out of the army
- Extraordinary rendition
- Fifth column
- Flash in the pan
- Forlorn hope
- Give no quarter
- Go like the clappers
- Good to go
- Hoist with your own petard
- I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat
- Join the colours
- Kilroy was here
- Lions led by donkeys
- Loose cannon
- Loose lips sink ships
- Meet your Waterloo
- Moaning Minnie
- Nail your colours to the mast
- No names, no pack-drill
- Not by a long shot
- Old soldiers never die
- Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more
- Over and out
- Over the top
- Oversexed, overpaid and over here
- Parting shot
- Pass muster
- Piece-of-piss
- Point-blank range
- Press into service
- Pyrrhic victory
- Rank and file
- Run the gauntlet
- Sealed with a loving kiss
- Sent to Coventry
- Show a leg
- Steal a march
- Stick to your guns
- Swing the lead
- Tell it to the marines
- The fog of war
- Ticked off
- Tout de suite
- Up and at ‘em
- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers