Struggle Phrases

Phrases

• A pitched battle
• A straight fight
• An uphill battle
• Armed struggle
• Attack is the best form of defence
• Attack of the Clones (George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series)
• Battle of the sexes
• Battle of wits
• Battle ready
• Battle royal
• Battle stations
• Black and white unite and fight (Political slogan)
• Conflict of interest
• Conflict resolution
• Denial of service attack
• Don't try this at home
• Don't try to run before you can walk
• Don't try to teach your Grandma to suck eggs
• Don't try to walk before you can crawl
• Eye it try it buy it! (Chevrolet advertising slogan)
• Fight Club (Brad Pitt movie)
• Fight For The Right To Party (Beastie Boys song)
• Fight back
• Fight back the tears
• Fight fire with fire
• Fight like a man
• Fight like cat and dog
• Fight off
• Fight or flight
• Fight shy
• Fight the good fight
• Fight the power
• Fight tooth and nail
• Fruits of your labour
• Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room (Dr.Strangelove)
• Get ready to rumble (prepare to fight or do battle)
• Give it the old college try
• Half the battle
• Hard labour
• Has your girl turned into a refrigerator? If her air is arctic, try MUM (Mum Deodorant advertising slogan)
• He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day
• Heart attack on a plate
• Heart attack waiting to happen
• How goes the battle?
• If at first you don't succeed try, try and try again
• If gas pains persist, try Volkswagen (Volkswagen advertising slogan)
• Imagine no religion, it's easy if you try

• In the heat of battle
• Labour in vain
• Labour intensive
• Labour of love
• Labour pains
• Labour saving device
• Labour under a misapprehension
• Last ditch effort
• Let battle commence
• Life and death struggle
• Line of attack
• Live to fight another day
• Loves Labour Lost
• Nice try
• Pick a fight
• Pillow fight
• Richard of York gave battle in vain
• Running battle
• Serious as a heart attack
• Snack attack
• Spoiling for a fight
• Stand up fight
• Strike out swinging (A baseball expression meaning to fail while giving it your best effort)
• Swing for the fences (A baseball expression meaning try for a substantial gain)
• The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton
• The battle of the bulge
• The fog of war (confusion caused by the chaos of battle)
• The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong (quotation from the Bible - Ecclesiastes
• These little things are sent to try us
• Throw a beanball (A baseball expression meaning to attack an opponent by aiming at their head)
• Tittle tattle lost the battle (WWII slogan)
• To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield (from a poem by Tennyson)
• Trouble and strife (Cockney rhyming slang for wife)
• Try A Little Tenderness (Otis Redding song)
• Try everything once, except incest and folk dancing (Sir Thomas Beecham quotation)
• Try it on the dog
• Try it, you'll like it (Alka Seltzer advertising slogan)
• Try your hand
• Try your luck
• Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman! (Coty Perfumes advertising slogan)
• War footing (preparedness to fight a military campaign)
• War weary (tired of conflict)
• We try harder (Avis car rental advertising slogan)
• We will fight on the beaches
• We're number two. We try harder (Avis Rent-a-Car advertising slogan)
• Why ask why? Try Bud Dry (Budweiser Earl advertising slogan)
• You can't fight city hall
• You've seen the rest, now try the best