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Battle Phrases

204 phrases and expressions related to "battle".

Phrases

  • A pitched battle
  • A straight fight
  • Action Jackson (Nickname of Stephen Jackson)
  • Action Man (Nickname of Prince Charles)
  • Action Man (children's male doll)
  • Action packed
  • Action painting
  • Action plan
  • Action replay
  • Action stations
  • Admit defeat
  • Affirmative action
  • Alamo City (Nickname of San Antonio Texas)
  • All out war
  • All's fair in love and war
  • Amped up (excited and ready for action)
  • An uphill battle
  • Argue the toss
  • Armageddon out of here
  • Armed struggle
  • Art Of War (Sun Tzu book)
  • Art of war
  • Articles of war
  • Assault with a deadly weapon
  • Attack is the best form of defence
  • Attack of the Clones (George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series)
  • Battle of the sexes
  • Battle of wits
  • Battle ready
  • Battle royal
  • Battle stations
  • Beat a hasty retreat
  • Beat the retreat
  • Beat your brains out
  • Beauty contest (a political contest in which the result is infuenced by personality and image more than by policy)
  • Beauty parade (a political contest in which the result is infuenced by personality and image more than by policy)
  • Between the wars (The period between WWI and WWII)
  • Black and white unite and fight (Political slogan)
  • Breast is best (slogan of breastfeeding campaign)
  • Call to action
  • Cannon fodder
  • Carry into action
  • Charge of the Light Brigade (British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a poem by Tennyson)
  • Clash of civilizations
  • Clash of culture
  • Clash of the titans
  • Class warfare
  • Clunk click every trip (Road Safety Campaign advertising slogan)
  • Combat fatigue
  • Combat ready
  • Come out fighting
  • Come out swinging
  • Conflict of interest
  • Conflict resolution
  • Crushing defeat
  • Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
  • Denial of service attack
  • Divide and conquer
  • Dog eat dog
  • Don't mention the war (A catchphrase from Faulty Towers)
  • Don't you know there's a war on? (WWII slogan)
  • Eye up the competition
  • 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
  • Fog of war
  • For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction
  • Front line
  • Gang warfare
  • Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room (Dr.Strangelove)
  • Germ warfare
  • Get ready to rumble (prepare to fight or do battle)
  • Go to war
  • Guerrilla warfare
  • Had a good war (to have been successful during a military campaign)
  • Half the battle
  • Hand-to-gland combat (slang term for masturbation)
  • He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day
  • Heart attack on a plate
  • Heart attack waiting to happen
  • How goes the battle?
  • I want YOU for the US Army (World War I and World War II advertising slogan)
  • If you vote for Goldwater, you'll get a war in Vietnam (Political slogan)
  • In the heat of battle
  • Industrial action
  • Keep the field (- continue a military campaign)
  • La Belle Epoque (the golden age or beautiful era preceding the First World War)
  • Let battle commence
  • Life and death struggle
  • Lights, camera, action
  • Line of attack
  • Live action
  • Live to fight another day
  • Lock horns with
  • London Calling (The Clash song)
  • Loose lips sink ships (World War II advertising slogan)
  • Love is a battlefield
  • Make love not war
  • Make war
  • Masters Of War (Bob Dylan song)
  • Meet your Waterloo
  • Missing in action
  • No contest
  • Open warfare (engaged in active fighting)
  • Out of action
  • Pick a fight
  • Piece of the action
  • Pillow fight
  • Pissing contest
  • Pit your wits against
  • Pontiac: Designed for Action (Pontiac advertising slogan)
  • Ready and waiting (alert and prepared for action)
  • Recent unpleasantness
  • Richard of York gave battle in vain
  • Running battle
  • Serious as a heart attack
  • She Stoops to Conquer (play by Oliver Goldsmith)
  • Shooting war
  • Slice of the action
  • Slug it out
  • Snack attack
  • Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
  • Snatching victory from the jaws of defeat
  • Spoiling for a fight
  • Spoils of war
  • Spring into action
  • Stand up fight
  • Stand-by for action
  • Stop, Look and Listen; remember the Green Cross Code (UK Road Safety Campaign advertising slogan)
  • Take it to the mattresses
  • Take the field (begin a sporting event or a military campaign)
  • The Alamo (tourist attraction in the USA)
  • The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton
  • The Cold War
  • The Last Action Hero (Arnold Schwarzenegger movie)
  • The War Of The Roses (Michael Douglas movie)
  • The battle of the bulge
  • The fog of war (confusion caused by the chaos of battle)
  • The fortunes of war
  • The gloves are off
  • The mother of all battles
  • The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong (quotation from the Bible - Ecclesiastes
  • The war to end wars
  • Throw a beanball (A baseball expression meaning to attack an opponent by aiming at their head)
  • Tittle tattle lost the battle (WWII slogan)
  • Trench warfare (combat where troops face each other in trenches)
  • Wage war
  • Walking wounded
  • War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy book)
  • War baby (someone born during the war - especially the illegitimate child of a soldier)
  • War cemetery
  • War chalking
  • War criminal (someone who has flouted the Geneva Convention)
  • War debt
  • War driving
  • War eagle (the golden eagle - used by Native Americans to make headdresses)
  • War footing (preparedness to fight a military campaign)
  • War game (a simulation of war intended as preparation)
  • War hero (someone who acted heroically during a war)
  • War is hell
  • War movie (a film with war as the subject matter)
  • War of nerves
  • War of words
  • War paint
  • War room (the place where war plans are directed)
  • War torn (severely damaged by war)
  • War weary (tired of conflict)
  • War widow (a woman whose husband died in a war)
  • War zone (the area that a war has taken place)
  • We will fight on the beaches
  • What did you do in the war Daddy?
  • When war is declared, truth is the first casualty
  • You are in a Beauty Contest Every Day of your Life (Camay Soap advertising slogan)
  • You can't fight city hall
  • You know it makes sense (Road Safety Campaign advertising slogan)

Related

  • A pitched battle
  • An uphill battle
  • Battle of the sexes
  • Battle of wits
  • Battle ready
  • Battle royal
  • Battle stations
  • Get ready to rumble (prepare to fight or do battle)
  • Half the battle
  • How goes the battle?
  • In the heat of battle
  • Let battle commence
  • Richard of York gave battle in vain
  • Running battle
  • The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton
  • 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)