Soldiers Phrases

Phrases

• A person is known by the company he keeps
• ABC: America's broadcasting company (ABC 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)
• Ballad of the Green Berets (Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler song)
• 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)
• Better Ideas. Driven by You (Ford Motor Company advertising slogan)
• Brothers In Arms (Dire Straits album)
• Canteen culture (boorish behaviour by rank and file police or soldiers)
• Charge of the Light Brigade (British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a poem by Tennyson)
• Christmas is a time to believe in things you can't see (3M Company Scotch Tape advertising slogan)
• Company man (a worker especially loyal to the employer he works for)
• Dad's Army (BBC comedy television series)
• Don't panic (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)
• Drummed out of the army
• Enjoy our company (Sabena advertising slogan)
• Field Marshall (the highest rank in the British Army)
• Genius loves company
• Go for a soldier (Enlist in the army)
• Heart to God, hand to man (The Salvation Army advertising slogan)
• I liked it so much I bought the company (Remington shavers advertising slogan)
• I want YOU for the US Army (World War I and World War II advertising slogan)
• In Flanders fields the poppies blow (from a poem by McCrae)
• In good company
• In the Army, the edge (Australian Army advertising slogan)
• Join the professionals (British Army advertising slogan)
• Keep bad company
• Keep company with
• Making smoking 'safe' for smokers (Bonded Tobacco Company advertising slogan)
• Misery loves company
• Old soldiers never die, they just fade away
• Onward Christian soldiers
• Part company
• Play the old soldier
• Present company excepted
• Red Army Fraction (German left wing terrorist group also call Red Army Faction)
• Send a salami to your boy in the army
• Send in the reinforcements
• Shack rat (Canadian military slang term for a promiscuous female who visits military barracks to sleep with soldiers)
• Simon Says (1910 Fruitgum Company song)
• Sod this for a game of soldiers
• Soldier of fortune
• Soldier on
• Some of our best men are women (United States Army advertising slogan)
• Swell the ranks
• The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Army Game (BBC comedy television series)
• The Grand old Duke of York he had ten thousand men (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Heroes Of Telemark (Burt Lancaster / Richard Harris movie)
• The Sally Army (Nickname of the Salvation Army)
• The Tartan Army
• The army national guard, you can (US Army National Guard advertising slogan)
• The company you keep (New York Life advertising slogan)
• The document company (Xerox advertising slogan)
• The forgotten army
• The thin red line
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (John Le Carre book)
• Two's company three's a crowd
• War baby (someone born during the war - especially the illegitimate child of a soldier)
• Wardrobe mistress (a person in charge of the costumes of a theatrical company)
• We few, we happy few, we band of brothers (from Henry V by Shakespeare)
• When they were up, they were up (line from nursery rhyme)
• You and whose army?
• You stupid boy! (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)
• You're in the army now