Fray Phrases

Phrases

• A pitched battle
• An uphill battle
• Battle of the sexes
• Battle of wits
• Battle ready
• Battle royal
• Battle stations
• Curl up and die
• Curl your lip
• Enough to make your hair curl
• Get ready to rumble (prepare to fight or do battle)
• Go out of curl
• Half the battle
• How goes the battle?
• In the heat of battle
• Let battle commence
• Make someone's toes curl
• 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)