Affray Phrases

Phrases

• A bull and cow (Cockney rhyming slang for row or argument)
• A pitched battle
• A straight fight
• Afraid of your own shadow
• Afraid so
• An uphill battle
• As camp as a row of tents
• Battle of the sexes
• Battle of wits
• Battle ready
• Battle royal
• Battle stations
• Be afraid, be very afraid
• Black and white unite and fight (Political slogan)
• Combat fatigue
• Combat ready
• Come out fighting
• Desolation Row (Bob Dylan song)
• Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask (David Reuben book)
• Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask (Woody Allen movie)
• Fight Club (Brad Pitt movie)
• Fight For The Right To Party (Beastie Boys song)
• Fight back
• Fight back the tears
• Fight fire with fire
• Fight like a man
• Fight like cat and dog
• Fight off
• Fight or flight
• Fight shy
• Fight the good fight
• Fight the power
• Fight tooth and nail
• Fighting chance
• Fighting fit
• Fighting mad
• Fighting talk
• Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room (Dr.Strangelove)
• Get ready to rumble (prepare to fight or do battle)
• Get your ducks in a row
• Go down fighting
• Half the battle
• Hand-to-gland combat (slang term for masturbation)
• Hard row to hoe
• He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day
• How goes the battle?
• I Predict A Riot (Kaiser Chiefs song)
• I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens (Woody Allen quotation)
• In the heat of battle
• Kung Fu Fighting (Carl Douglas song)
• Laugh riot
• Lean mean fighting machine
• Let battle commence
• Let your imagination run riot
• Live to fight another day
• Make a scene (causing a disturbance)
• Murderers' Row (A baseball expression denoting a group of talented individuals or valuable assets)
• On death row
• On skid row
• Open warfare (engaged in active fighting)
• Pick a fight
• Pillow fight
• Read the riot act
• Richard of York gave battle in vain
• Riot of colour
• Row up Salt River
• Row, row, row your boat
• Rubber bullet (a bullet made of rubber or plastic and used for riot control)
• Running battle
• Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting (Elton John song)
• Scrap Iron (Nickname of Phil Garner)
• Spoiling for a fight
• Stand up fight
• Street Fighting Man (Rolling Stones song)
• The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton
• The Fighting Cowboy (Nickname of James Tillis)
• The Riot (Nickname of Ryan Theriot)
• The Shadow knows (A catchphrase from the crime fighting vigilante)
• The battle of the bulge
• The fog of war (confusion caused by the chaos of battle)
• The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong (quotation from the Bible - Ecclesiastes
• Tittle tattle lost the battle (WWII slogan)
• Tough row to hoe
• Trench warfare (combat where troops face each other in trenches)
• War footing (preparedness to fight a military campaign)
• We will fight on the beaches
• Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (Elizabeth Taylor movie)
• Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf? (play by Edward Albee)
• With silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row (line from nursery rhyme)
• You can't fight city hall