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Bomb Phrases

170 phrases and expressions related to "bomb".

Phrases

A View To A Kill (James Bond movie Roger Moore)
A bigger bang for your buck
A child is an island of curiosity surrounded by a sea of question marks (Shell advertising slogan)
Agent orange
All out war
All's fair in love and war
An ill-favoured thing sir, but mine own
Anti personnel mine
Art Of War (Sun Tzu book)
Art of war
Articles of war
Assault with a deadly weapon
Back to the salt mine
Ban the bomb
Bang goes nothing
Bang on
Bang on about
Bang out of order
Bang to rights
Bang your head against a brick wall
Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon her head (The Beatles song lyric)
Belly flop
Big bang
Black bomber
Blonde bombshell
Bombed out of your skull
Bomber Harris (Nickname of Arthur Harris)
Cannon fodder
Carpet bombing
Charge of the Light Brigade (British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a poem by Tennyson)
Chicago pineapple
Choose your weapon
Come out of your shell
Conner the Bomber (Nickname of Becky Conner (Lecy Goranson))
Crawl back into your shell
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
Dial down (adjust a device to reduce sound or temperature)
Doctor Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (Peter Sellers movie)
Don't mention the war (A catchphrase from Faulty Towers)
Don't you know there's a war on? (WWII slogan)
Dressed to kill
Drop a bombshell
Failing to plan is planning to fail
False jeopardy (plot device in TV melodramas where danger is threatened only for it to be found to be a false alarm)
Father of The Atomic Bomb (Nickname of Robert Oppenheimer)
Fog of war
Gang bang
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room (Dr.Strangelove)
Get a bang out of something
Go in for the kill
Go to war
Go well Go Shell (Shell advertising slogan)
Go with a bang
Gunpowder treason and plot (line from nursery rhyme)
Had a good war (to have been successful during a military campaign)
Hand-held device
Hard shell
Her Honeymoon - and it should have been mine! (Listerine Mouthwash advertising slogan)
I Me Mine (The Beatles song)
I love the smell of napalm in the morning (Apocalypse Now)
I scratch your back and you scratch mine
I want YOU for the US Army (World War I and World War II advertising slogan)
I'd kill for a cup of tea
If I tell you, I'll have to kill you
If looks could kill
If you vote for Goldwater, you'll get a war in Vietnam (Political slogan)
In at the kill
Keep going well - keep going Shell (Shell advertising slogan)
Kill Bill (Quentin Tarantino movie)
Kill or be killed
Kill or cure
Kill stone dead
Kill the fatted calf
Kill the goose that lays the golden egg
Kill time
Kill time until time kills you
Kill two birds with one stone
Kill with kindness
La Belle Epoque (the golden age or beautiful era preceding the First World War)
Labour saving device
Letter bomb
Licence To Kill (James Bond movie Timothy Dalton)
Licensed to kill
Looks like a bomb has hit it
Loose cannon

Loose lips sink ships (World War II advertising slogan)
Make love not war
Make mine Moxie (Moxie soda advertising slogan)
Make mine a double
Make war
Masters Of War (Bob Dylan song)
Mine host
Mine is bigger than yours
Mine of information
Molotov cocktail
More bang for your buck
Not with a bang but a whimper (from a poem by Eliot)
Not with a bang but with a whimper
Nuclear autumn
Nuclear option
Nuclear winter
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine (Casablanca)
Poor thing but mine own
Road kill
Secret weapon
Shell game
Shell out
Shell shock
Shock and awe
Shoeicide bomber
Shoot to kill
Shooting war
Slap bang in the middle
Spoils of war
Strike out swinging (A baseball expression meaning to fail while giving it your best effort)
Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) (Kelly Clarkson song)
That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine (Gene Autry song)
That which does not kill us makes us stronger (Friedrich Nietzsche quotation)
That's Shell - that was! (Shell advertising slogan)
The Blonde Bomber (Nickname of Dirk Nowitzki)
The Blonde Bomber (Nickname of Terry Bradshaw)
The Bronx Bomber (Nickname of Alex Ramos)
The Brown Bomber (Nickname of Joe Louis)
The Cajun Cannon (Nickname of Bobby Hebert)
The Cannonball Kid (Nickname of tennis player Roscoe Tanner)
The Cold War
The Mad Bomber (Nickname of Daryle Lamonica)
The Missile (Nickname of Qadry Ismail)
The Polish Cannon (Nickname of Sebastian Janikowski)
The War Of The Roses (Michael Douglas movie)
The fog of war (confusion caused by the chaos of battle)
The fortunes of war
The war to end wars
Thou shalt not kill
Time to kill
To Kill A Mockingbird (Gregory Peck movie)
Victory is mine
Wabash Cannonball (Roy Acuff song)
Wage war
Walking across a minefield
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)
Weapons of mass destruction
Weather bomb (a rapidly deepening low pressure area causing severe storms)
What did you do in the war Daddy?
When war is declared, truth is the first casualty
Yarn bombing (Adorning street furntiure and buildings with knitted items as a form of graffiti)
You can be sure of Shell (Shell advertising slogan)
You too can have a body like mine (Charles Atlas advertising slogan)
Your guess is as good as mine
Your place or mine?