Shrapnel Phrases

Phrases

• A child is an island of curiosity surrounded by a sea of question marks (Shell advertising slogan)
• All out war
• All's fair in love and war
• Art Of War (Sun Tzu book)
• Art of war
• Articles of war
• At the end of a gun
• Charge of the Light Brigade (British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a poem by Tennyson)
• Chew a gun
• Come out of your shell
• Crawl back into your shell
• Crazy Gun Barney (Nickname of Barney Fife (Don Knotts))
• Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
• Death metal
• Don't mention the war (A catchphrase from Faulty Towers)
• Don't you know there's a war on? (WWII slogan)
• Fog of war
• Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick movie)
• Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room (Dr.Strangelove)
• Give it the gun
• Go to war
• Go well Go Shell (Shell advertising slogan)
• Gun down
• Had a good war (to have been successful during a military campaign)
• Happiness Is A Warm Gun (The Beatles song)
• Hard shell
• Have gun, will travel (A catchphrase from TV series)
• Heavy metal
• Hold a gun to his head
• I want YOU for the US Army (World War I and World War II advertising slogan)
• If you vote for Goldwater, you'll get a war in Vietnam (Political slogan)
• Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
• Jump the gun
• Keep going well - keep going Shell (Shell advertising slogan)
• La Belle Epoque (the golden age or beautiful era preceding the First World War)
• Leave the gun, take the cannoli (line from The Godfather)
• Like a pig from a gun
• Loose lips sink ships (World War II advertising slogan)
• Machine Gun Kelly (Nickname of George Kelly)
• Make love not war
• Make war
• Masters Of War (Bob Dylan song)
• Metal fatigue
• Mother Superior jumped the gun (Beatles song lyric)
• Put a gun to your head
• Put the pedal to the metal

• Rub salt in the wound
• See how they run like pigs from a gun (The Beatles song lyric)
• Shell game
• Shell out
• Shell shock
• Shooting war
• Smoking gun
• Son of a gun
• Spoils of war
• That's Shell - that was! (Shell advertising slogan)
• The Cannonball Kid (Nickname of tennis player Roscoe Tanner)
• The Cold War
• The Fast Gun From Texas (Nickname of Dan Troop (John Russell))
• The Gun That Won The West (Nickname of the Colt revolver)
• The Man With The Golden Gun (James Bond movie Roger Moore)
• 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
• Under the gun
• Wabash Cannonball (Roy Acuff song)
• Wage war
• 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)
• What did you do in the war Daddy?
• When war is declared, truth is the first casualty
• You can be sure of Shell (Shell advertising slogan)