Armed Phrases

Phrases

• A Bouquet Of Barbed Wire (Andrea Newman book)
• A straight fight
• An army marches on its stomach
• An army of one (United States Army advertising slogan)
• Armed and dangerous
• Armed intervention
• Armed struggle
• Armed to the hilt
• Armed to the teeth
• Army Dreamers (Kate Bush song)
• Army strawberries (military slang term for prunes)
• As busy as a one armed paper hanger
• Assault with a deadly weapon
• Barmy army
• Battle ready
• Be all that you can be (United States Army advertising slogan)
• Be all you can be (US Army advertising slogan)
• Be the best (British Army advertising slogan)
• Black and white unite and fight (Political slogan)
• Charge of the Light Brigade (British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a poem by Tennyson)
• Choose your weapon
• Dad's Army (BBC comedy television series)
• Don't panic (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)
• Drummed out of the army
• Field Marshall (the highest rank in the British Army)
• 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
• Forewarned is forearmed
• Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room (Dr.Strangelove)
• Get ready to rumble (prepare to fight or do battle)
• Had a good war (to have been successful during a military campaign)
• He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day
• Heart to God, hand to man (The Salvation Army advertising slogan)
• I want YOU for the US Army (World War I and World War II advertising slogan)
• In the Army, the edge (Australian Army advertising slogan)
• Join the professionals (British Army advertising slogan)
• Keep the field (- continue a military campaign)
• Live to fight another day
• Military precision
• One armed bandit
• Pecker checker (military slang term for medical personnel)
• Pick a fight
• Pillow fight
• Red Army Fraction (German left wing terrorist group also call Red Army Faction)
• Secret weapon
• Send a salami to your boy in the army
• Some of our best men are women (United States Army advertising slogan)
• Spoiling for a fight
• Stand up fight
• Take the field (begin a sporting event or a military campaign)
• The Army Game (BBC comedy television series)
• The Sally Army (Nickname of the Salvation Army)
• The Tartan Army
• The army national guard, you can (US Army National Guard advertising slogan)
• The forgotten army
• There's no life like it (Canadian Armed Forces advertising slogan)
• War footing (preparedness to fight a military campaign)
• We will fight on the beaches
• You and whose army?
• You can't fight city hall
• You stupid boy! (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)
• You're in the army now