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A View To A
Kill
( James Bond movie Roger Moore )
A bigger
bang
for your buck
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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
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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
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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
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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?