Soldier Phrases

Phrases

• A cup of coffee (A baseball expression denoting a break from major league baseball)
• A white knight
• About face
• About turn
• Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall (Spike Milligan book)
• Air support
• An army of one (United States Army advertising slogan)
• As you were
• Atilla of the American Continent (Nickname of General William Sherman)
• Ballad of the Green Berets (Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler song)
• Baptism of fire
• Barrack room lawyer
• Be all that you can be (United States Army advertising slogan)
• Be the best (British Army advertising slogan)
• Bear arms
• Bought the farm
• Break ranks
• Brothers in arms
• Butcher of Baghdad (Nickname of Saddam Hussein)
• Butcher of the Somme (Nickname of General Douglas Haig)
• Buy the farm
• Cannon fodder
• Canteen culture (boorish behaviour by rank and file police or soldiers)
• Captain America (Nickname of footballer Claudio Reyna)
• Captain Bly (Nickname of baseball player Bert Blyleven)
• Captain Bob (Nickname of Robert Maxwell)
• Captain Brassbound's Conversion
• Captain Canada (Nickname of basketball player Steve Nash)
• Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Louis de Bernieres book)
• Captain Crunch (Nickname of basketball player Jalen Rose)
• Captain Funkie Fresh (Nickname of Eddie Winslow (Darius McCrary))
• Captain Hook (Nickname of baseball manager George Anderson)
• Captain Jack (Nickname of basketball player Stephen Jackson)
• Captain Kirk (Nickname of basketball player Kirk Hinrich)
• Captain Marvel (Nickname of footballer Bryan Robson)
• Captain Underpants And The Invasion Of The Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies From Outer Space (Dav Pilkey book)
• Captain Underpants And The Perilous Plot Of Professor Poopypants (Dav Pilkey book)
• Captain Underpants And The Wrath Of The Wicked Wedgie Woman (Dav Pilkey book)
• Captain of industry
• Captain's log... (A catchphrase from Star Trek)
• Celebrate the Moments of Your Life (General Foods International Coffee advertising slogan)
• Charge of the Light Brigade (British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a poem by Tennyson)
• Chemical Ali (Nickname of Ali Hassan al-Majid)
• Combat fatigue
• Combat ready
• Comical Ali (Nickname of Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf)
• Crank That (Soulja Boy) (Soulja Boy Tell 'Em song)
• Cross into the Blue (United States Air Force advertising slogan)
• Dawn patrol
• Fall in
• Ferret face (Nickname of Major Frank Burns (Larry Linville))
• Field Marshall (the highest rank in the British Army)
• Fifth column
• Flight attendant
• Foxhole buddy
• General knowledge
• General purpose
• General release
• Gentleman at arms
• Go commando
• Go for a soldier (Enlist in the army)
• Grunt cruncher (military tank - grunt is a slang term for infantryman)
• Hand-to-gland combat (slang term for masturbation)
• Have a Captain Cook (Cockney rhyming slang for look)
• Hello sailor
• Hey Joe (Jimi Hendrix song)
• High ticket item (a consumer good that would constitute a major expense when bought)
• Hot Lips Houlihan (Nickname of Major Margaret Houlihan (Loretta Swit))
• I want YOU for the US Army (World War I and World War II advertising slogan)
• I'm convinced the Goodyear Grand Prix-S is a major contribution to road safety (Goodyear Tyres advertising slogan)
• Imagination at Work (General Electric advertising slogan)
• In Xanadu did Kubla Khan (from a poem by Coleridge)

• In the Army, the edge (Australian Army advertising slogan)
• In uniform
• Join the professionals (British Army advertising slogan)
• Join up
• Kiss Me Thru the Phone (Soulja Boy Tell 'Em song)
• Knight in shining armour
• Knight of the road
• Left right, left right, march
• Lie like a trooper
• Lions led by donkeys
• Little General (Nickname of Avery Johnson)
• Major league (A baseball expression meaning at the top rank)
• Major player
• Masters Of War (Bob Dylan song)
• Michigan Assassin (Nickname of Stanley Ketchel)
• My Own Private Idaho (River Phoenix movie)
• Name, rank, and serial number
• Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish (Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band song)
• Old soldiers never die, they just fade away
• On the double
• Only A Pawn In Their Game (Bob Dylan song)
• Only the best for the Captain's table (Birdseye advertising slogan)
• Onward Christian soldiers
• Open fire
• Papa Bear Colonel (Nickname of Robert Hogan (Bob Crane))
• Play the old soldier
• Point duty
• Private Dancer (Tina Turner album)
• Private hell
• Private life
• Private parts
• Progress is our most important product (General Electric advertising slogan)
• Puddin' Head (Nickname of Colonel Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan))
• Rank and file
• Reporting for duty
• Rise and shine
• Road warrior
• Sailor's farewell
• Send a salami to your boy in the army
• Shack rat (Canadian military slang term for a promiscuous female who visits military barracks to sleep with soldiers)
• Sod this for a game of soldiers
• Soldier of fortune
• Soldier on
• Some of our best men are women (United States Army advertising slogan)
• Sooner or later, you'll own Generals (General Tires Corp advertising slogan)
• Stormin' Norman (Nickname of General Norman Schwarzkopf)
• Swear like a trooper
• The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Assassin (Nickname of Jack Tatum)
• The Baby-Faced Assassin (Nickname of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer)
• The Black Watch (Nickname of The Royal Highland Regiment)
• The Blues And Royals (Nickname of The Household Cavalry)
• The Captain (Nickname of Kareem Abdul Jabbar)
• The East Coast Assassin (Nickname of Gilbert Arenas)
• The French Lieutenant's Woman (Jeremy Irons / Meryl Streep movie)
• The Galloping Major (Nickname of Ferenc Puskas)
• The Hammer of The Scots (Nickname of King Edward I)
• The Iron Chancellor (Nickname of Otto Von Bismark)
• The Iron Duke (Nickname of Arthur Duke of Wellington)
• The Little Corporal (Nickname of Napoleon Bonaparte)
• The Poor Bloody Infantry (term used to describe the British infantry in WWI)
• The Red Baron (Nickname of Baron Manfred von Richtofen)
• The army national guard, you can (US Army National Guard advertising slogan)
• Theirs is not to wonder why, theirs is but to do or die
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (John Le Carre book)
• Trench warfare (combat where troops face each other in trenches)
• True to you (Julius Baer Private Bank advertising slogan)
• Uncle Joe (Nickname of Joseph Stalin)
• War baby (someone born during the war - especially the illegitimate child of a soldier)
• We bring good things to life (General Electric advertising slogan)
• White knight
• Whitehall warrior
• You stupid boy! (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)