Phrase thesaurus
Combat Phrases
150 phrases and expressions related to "combat".
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