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Army Phrases

181 phrases and expressions related to "army".

Phrases

  • A better bus service all round (Carousel Buses advertising slogan)
  • A pitched battle
  • A product of the master mind (Senior Service cigarettes advertising slogan)
  • A tiger in your tank
  • Absent without leave
  • All present and correct
  • 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
  • As you were
  • At your service
  • Atilla of the American Continent (Nickname of General William Sherman)
  • Ballad of the Green Berets (Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler song)
  • Bangers and mash
  • Barmy army
  • 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)
  • Blue rinse brigade
  • Break ranks
  • Brothers in arms
  • Butcher of Baghdad (Nickname of Saddam Hussein)
  • Butcher of the Somme (Nickname of General Douglas Haig)
  • Call to action
  • Call to arms
  • Call up
  • Canteen culture (boorish behaviour by rank and file police or soldiers)
  • Charge of the Light Brigade (British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a poem by Tennyson)
  • Chemical Ali (Nickname of Ali Hassan al-Majid)
  • Civvy street
  • Clerks and jerks
  • Combat fatigue
  • Combat ready
  • Comical Ali (Nickname of Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf)
  • Command central
  • Cracker box
  • Dad's Army (BBC comedy television series)
  • Dawn patrol
  • Dawn raid
  • Denial of service attack
  • Don't mess with Texas
  • Don't mess with my head
  • Don't panic (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)
  • Dragoon into
  • Drummed out of the army
  • Drunk tank
  • Earn your stripes
  • Esprit de corps
  • Eyes right
  • Fall in
  • Field Marshall (the highest rank in the British Army)
  • For mash get Smash (Cadbury's Smash advertising slogan)
  • Frightful mess
  • Garrison town
  • Getting things done (AmeriCorps national service program advertising slogan)
  • Give a hoot, don't pollute (United States Forest Service advertising slogan)
  • Go commando
  • Green slime (military slang term for the intelligence corps)
  • Grunt cruncher (military tank - grunt is a slang term for infantryman)
  • Had a good war (to have been successful during a military campaign)
  • Hand-to-gland combat (slang term for masturbation)
  • Heart to God, hand to man (The Salvation Army advertising slogan)
  • Here's another fine mess you've gotten me into (A catchphrase from Laurel And Hardy)
  • Hot mess
  • 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)
  • In uniform
  • Invalided out
  • It Ain't Half Hot Mum (BBC comedy television series)
  • Join the colours
  • Join the professionals (British Army advertising slogan)
  • Join up
  • Keep in line
  • Keep the field (- continue a military campaign)
  • Keep your powder dry
  • Kit and caboodle
  • Lions led by donkeys
  • Masters Of War (Bob Dylan song)
  • Mess around
  • Military precision
  • Monster Mash (Nickname of Jamal Mashburn)
  • No battery is stronger longer (Duracell Batteries advertising slogan)
  • No man's land
  • No names: no packdrill
  • Normal service has been resumed
  • Old soldiers never die, they just fade away
  • On Her Majesty's Secret Service (James Bond movie George Lazenby)
  • On parade
  • One armed bandit
  • Only you can prevent forest fires (United States Forest Service advertising slogan)
  • Onward Christian soldiers
  • Out of service
  • Overpaid, oversexed, and over here
  • Pay lip service to
  • Pecker checker (military slang term for medical personnel)
  • Press into service
  • Put a tiger in Your Tank (Esso advertising slogan)
  • Put the tin hat on it
  • Rank and file
  • Red Army Fraction (German left wing terrorist group also call Red Army Faction)
  • Reporting for duty
  • Right service Right price (Meineke advertising slogan)
  • Rise and shine
  • Send a salami to your boy in the army
  • Send in the reinforcements
  • Senior Service satisfy (Senior Service cigarettes advertising slogan)
  • Service level agreement
  • Service with a smile
  • Shack rat (Canadian military slang term for a promiscuous female who visits military barracks to sleep with soldiers)
  • Silver service (a method of serving food using silver cutlery)
  • Sod this for a game of soldiers
  • Some of our best men are women (United States Army advertising slogan)
  • Space cadet
  • Square bashing
  • Stormin' Norman (Nickname of General Norman Schwarzkopf)
  • Suicide is painless (title of the theme song to MASH tv series and film)
  • Swell the ranks
  • Take the field (begin a sporting event or a military campaign)
  • Take the king's shilling
  • The Army Game (BBC comedy television series)
  • The Bengal Tigers (Nickname of The Royal Leicestershire Regiment)
  • The Black Watch (Nickname of The Royal Highland Regiment)
  • The Blues And Royals (Nickname of The Household Cavalry)
  • The Iron Chancellor (Nickname of Otto Von Bismark)
  • The Little Corporal (Nickname of Napoleon Bonaparte)
  • The Poor Bloody Infantry (term used to describe the British infantry in WWI)
  • The Red Baron (Nickname of Baron Manfred von Richtofen)
  • The Sally Army (Nickname of the Salvation Army)
  • The Tartan Army
  • The army national guard, you can (US Army National Guard advertising slogan)
  • The few, the proud, the Marines (United States Marine Corps advertising slogan)
  • The forgotten army
  • The toughest job you'll ever love (United States Peace Corps advertising slogan)
  • Theirs is not to wonder why, theirs is but to do or die
  • There's a tiger in my tank
  • There's no life like it (Canadian Armed Forces advertising slogan)
  • To our members, we're the fourth emergency service (Automobile Association advertising slogan)
  • Tour of duty
  • Trench warfare (combat where troops face each other in trenches)
  • Uncle Joe (Nickname of Joseph Stalin)
  • War footing (preparedness to fight a military campaign)
  • World Service
  • Yeoman service
  • You and whose army?
  • You stupid boy! (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)
  • You're in the army now

Related

  • An army marches on its stomach
  • An army of one (United States Army advertising slogan)
  • Army Dreamers (Kate Bush song)
  • Army strawberries (military slang term for prunes)
  • Barmy army
  • 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)
  • Charge of the Light Brigade (British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a poem by Tennyson)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Red Army Fraction (German left wing terrorist group also call Red Army Faction)
  • Send a salami to your boy in the army
  • Some of our best men are women (United States Army advertising slogan)
  • 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
  • You and whose army?
  • You stupid boy! (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)
  • You're in the army now