Pentagon Phrases

Phrases

• Accelerate your life (US Navy advertising slogan)
• 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)
• 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)
• Bent out of shape
• Born In The U.S.A.(Bruce Springsteen album and song)
• Camp David (tourist attraction in USA)
• Central Park (tourist attraction in New York USA)
• Charge of the Light Brigade (British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a poem by Tennyson)
• Chicken capital, USA (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• Dad's Army (BBC comedy television series)
• Death Valley (tourist attraction in Arizona USA)
• Do you want a shape like a bra? Or do you want a shape like a woman? (Warner's Body Bra advertising slogan)
• Don't panic (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)
• Drummed out of the army
• Field Marshall (the highest rank in the British Army)
• Five by five
• Five figures
• Five fingered discount
• Five for silver (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Five golden rings (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Five o-clock shadow
• Five, six, pick up sticks (line from nursery rhyme)
• Fort Knox (tourist attraction in USA)
• Full fathom five
• Full fathom five thy father lies (from The Tempest by Shakespeare)
• Get in shape
• Get into shape
• Get your family into Shape, without them even noticing (St. Ivel Yogurt advertising slogan)
• Gimme, five
• Glad All Over (Dave Clark Five song)
• Had a good war (to have been successful during a military campaign)
• Heart to God, hand to man (The Salvation Army advertising slogan)
• High five
• 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 the professionals (British Army advertising slogan)
• Keep in shape
• Keep the field (- continue a military campaign)
• Knock into shape
• Know how many beans make five
• Lick into shape
• Madison Square Garden (tourist attraction in the USA)
• Military precision
• Mount Rushmore (tourist attraction in the USA)

• Nine To Five (Lily Tomlin / Dolly Parton / Jane Fonda movie)
• Party in the U.S.A. (Miley Cyrus song)
• Pecker checker (military slang term for medical personnel)
• Platinum Sombrero (A baseball expression denoting striking out five times in a game)
• Prime condition (in perfect shape)
• Red Army Fraction (German left wing terrorist group also call Red Army Faction)
• See the USA in a Chevrolet (Chevrolet advertising slogan)
• Send a salami to your boy in the army
• Shape up or ship out
• Ship shape and Bristol fashion
• Silver wedding (a celebration of twenty-five years of marriage)
• Snakes alive (Bingo call for number fifty five)
• Some of our best men are women (United States Army advertising slogan)
• Surfin USA (Beach Boys song)
• Take Five (Dave Brubeck tune)
• Take five
• Take shape
• Take the field (begin a sporting event or a military campaign)
• The Alamo (tourist attraction in the USA)
• The Army Game (BBC comedy television series)
• The Big Five
• The Big Pond (nickname of the Atlantic Ocean between the UK and the USA)
• The Brooklyn Bridge (tourist attraction in New York USA)
• The Chrysler Building (tourist attraction in New York USA)
• The Empire State Building (tourist attraction in New York USA)
• The Famous Five (characters in Enid Blyton's series of children's book)
• The Five Orange Pips (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Golden Gate Bridge (tourist attraction in USA)
• The Grand Canyon (tourist attraction in the USA)
• The Grand Ol Opry (tourist attraction in Nashville USA)
• The Lincoln Memorial (tourist attraction in Washington USA)
• The Rockefeller Centre (tourist attraction in New York USA)
• The Sally Army (Nickname of the Salvation Army)
• The Statue of Liberty (tourist attraction in New York USA)
• The Tartan Army
• The White House (tourist attraction in Washington USA)
• The army national guard, you can (US Army National Guard advertising slogan)
• The forgotten army
• The one and only cereal that comes in the shape of animals (Crispy Critters advertising slogan)
• The shape of things to come
• This tape will self-destruct in five seconds (A catchphrase from Mission Impossible)
• Throw a shape
• Times Square (tourist attraction in New York USA)
• Two and two make five
• War footing (preparedness to fight a military campaign)
• We Are the World (USA for Africa song)
• Yellowstone Park (tourist attraction in the USA)
• Yosemite National Park (tourist attraction in the USA)
• You and whose army?
• You stupid boy! (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)
• You're in the army now