Combat Phrases

Phrases

• A pitched battle
• A straight fight
• Air support
• All out war
• All's fair in love and war
• An army marches on its stomach
• An army of one (United States Army advertising slogan)
• An uphill battle
• Army Dreamers (Kate Bush song)
• Army strawberries (military slang term for prunes)
• Art Of War (Sun Tzu book)
• Art of war
• Articles of war
• Barmy army
• Battle of the sexes
• Battle of wits
• Battle ready
• Battle royal
• Battle stations
• 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)
• Between the wars (The period between WWI and WWII)
• Black and white unite and fight (Political slogan)
• Blood and guts
• Charge of the Light Brigade (British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a poem by Tennyson)
• Class warfare
• Combat fatigue
• Combat ready
• Come out fighting
• Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
• Cut and thrust
• Dad's Army (BBC comedy television series)
• Don't mention the war (A catchphrase from Faulty Towers)
• Don't panic (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)
• Don't you know there's a war on? (WWII slogan)
• 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
• Fighting chance
• Fighting fit
• Fighting mad
• Fighting talk
• First strike
• Fog of war
• 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 down fighting
• Go for a soldier (Enlist in the army)
• 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 to God, hand to man (The Salvation Army advertising slogan)
• 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 Army, the edge (Australian Army advertising slogan)
• In the heat of battle
• Join the professionals (British Army advertising slogan)
• Kung Fu Fighting (Carl Douglas song)
• La Belle Epoque (the golden age or beautiful era preceding the First World War)
• Lean mean fighting machine
• Let battle commence
• Live to fight another day
• Loose lips sink ships (World War II advertising slogan)
• Make love not war
• Make war
• Masters Of War (Bob Dylan song)
• Open warfare (engaged in active fighting)
• Pick a fight
• Pillow fight
• Play the old soldier
• Red Army Fraction (German left wing terrorist group also call Red Army Faction)
• Richard of York gave battle in vain
• Running battle
• Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting (Elton John song)
• Send a salami to your boy in the army
• Shooting war
• Soldier of fortune
• Soldier on
• Some of our best men are women (United States Army advertising slogan)
• Spoiling for a fight
• Spoils of war
• Stand up fight
• Street Fighting Man (Rolling Stones song)
• The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Army Game (BBC comedy television series)
• The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton
• The Cold War
• The Fighting Cowboy (Nickname of James Tillis)
• The Sally Army (Nickname of the Salvation Army)
• The Shadow knows (A catchphrase from the crime fighting vigilante)
• The Tartan Army
• The War Of The Roses (Michael Douglas movie)
• The army national guard, you can (US Army National Guard advertising slogan)
• The battle of the bulge
• The fog of war (confusion caused by the chaos of battle)
• The forgotten army
• The fortunes of war
• The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong (quotation from the Bible - Ecclesiastes
• The war to end wars
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (John Le Carre book)
• Tittle tattle lost the battle (WWII slogan)
• Trench warfare (combat where troops face each other in trenches)
• Wage war
• 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 and whose army?
• You can't fight city hall
• You stupid boy! (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)
• You're in the army now