Military Phrases

Phrases

• An army marches on its stomach
• An army of one (United States Army advertising slogan)
• Armed and dangerous
• Armed intervention
• Armed struggle
• Armed to the hilt
• Armed to the teeth
• Army Dreamers (Kate Bush song)
• Army strawberries (military slang term for prunes)
• As busy as a one armed paper hanger
• As mad as a march hare
• 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)
• Beware the Ides of March
• Charge of the Light Brigade (British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a poem by Tennyson)
• Command and control
• Dad's Army (BBC comedy television series)
• Dawn raid
• Don't panic (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)
• Drummed out of the army
• Field Marshall (the highest rank in the British Army)
• First responder (the member of the emergency services to arrive at a disaster)
• Grunt cruncher (military tank - grunt is a slang term for infantryman)
• Had a good war (to have been successful during a military campaign)
• Heart to God, hand to man (The Salvation Army advertising slogan)
• I want YOU for the US Army (World War I and World War II advertising slogan)
• In the Army, the edge (Australian Army advertising slogan)
• Join forces

• Join the professionals (British Army advertising slogan)
• Keep the field (- continue a military campaign)
• Left right, left right, march
• March Of The Penguins (Morgan Freeman movie)
• March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb
• March from Bridge on the River Kwai (Mitch Miller song)
• March of time
• March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers
• Military precision
• Mr. March (Nickname of Alex Rodriguez)
• One armed bandit
• Pecker checker (military slang term for medical personnel)
• Press into service
• Red Army Fraction (German left wing terrorist group also call Red Army Faction)
• Send a salami to your boy in the army
• Some of our best men are women (United States Army advertising slogan)
• Steal a march
• Take the field (begin a sporting event or a military campaign)
• The Army Game (BBC comedy television series)
• The Forces Sweetheart (Nickname of Vera Lynn)
• The Mad March Hare
• The Sally Army (Nickname of the Salvation Army)
• The Tartan Army
• The army national guard, you can (US Army National Guard advertising slogan)
• The forgotten army
• There's no life like it (Canadian Armed Forces advertising slogan)
• War footing (preparedness to fight a military campaign)
• You and whose army?
• You stupid boy! (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)
• You're in the army now