Infantry Phrases

Phrases

• A foot in both camps
• 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)
• Athlete's foot
• 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)
• Bound hand and foot
• Charge of the Light Brigade (British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a poem by Tennyson)
• Cluck and grunt
• Dad's Army (BBC comedy television series)
• Do you know the piano's on my foot?
• Don't panic (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)
• Drummed out of the army
• Field Marshall (the highest rank in the British Army)
• Fleet of foot
• Foot in mouth
• Foot in the bucket (A baseball expression meaning to act timidly or cowardly)
• Foot in the door
• Foot the bill
• Get off on the right foot
• Get off on the wrong foot
• Get your foot in the door
• Grunt cruncher (military tank - grunt is a slang term for infantryman)
• Heart to God, hand to man (The Salvation Army advertising slogan)
• I don't believe it (A catchphrase from Victor Meldrew, One Foot In The Grave)
• I want YOU for the US Army (World War I and World War II advertising slogan)

• I'll go to the foot of our stairs
• In the Army, the edge (Australian Army advertising slogan)
• Join the professionals (British Army advertising slogan)
• On the back foot
• On the wrong foot
• One Foot In The Grave (BBC comedy television series)
• One foot in the grave
• Put a foot wrong
• Put one foot in front of the other
• Put your best foot forward
• Put your foot down
• Put your foot in it
• Put your foot in your mouth
• Red Army Fraction (German left wing terrorist group also call Red Army Faction)
• Send a salami to your boy in the army
• Set foot in
• Shoot yourself in the foot
• Some of our best men are women (United States Army advertising slogan)
• The Adventure of the Devil's Foot (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Army Game (BBC comedy television series)
• The Poor Bloody Infantry (term used to describe the British infantry in WWI)
• The Sally Army (Nickname of the Salvation Army)
• The Tartan Army
• The army national guard, you can (US Army National Guard advertising slogan)
• The boot is on the other foot
• The forgotten army
• The shoe's on the other foot
• Work the rabbit's foot on
• You and whose army?
• You stupid boy! (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)
• You're in the army now