Tank Phrases

Phrases

• A tiger in your tank
• 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)
• Assault with a deadly weapon
• At the end of a gun
• 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)
• Boiler room (The location of a high pressure telephone sales team)
• Bunny boiler
• 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
• Choose your weapon
• Crazy Gun Barney (Nickname of Barney Fife (Don Knotts))
• Dad's Army (BBC comedy television series)
• Don't panic (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)
• Drummed out of the army
• Drunk tank
• Field Marshall (the highest rank in the British Army)
• Fill her up
• Get your tanks off my lawn
• Give it the gun
• Grunt cruncher (military tank - grunt is a slang term for infantryman)
• Gun down
• Happiness Is A Warm Gun (The Beatles song)
• Have gun, will travel (A catchphrase from TV series)
• Heart to God, hand to man (The Salvation Army advertising slogan)
• Hold a gun to his head
• I want YOU for the US Army (World War I and World War II advertising slogan)
• In cold storage

• In the Army, the edge (Australian Army advertising slogan)
• Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
• Join the professionals (British Army advertising slogan)
• Jump the gun
• Knight in shining armour
• Leave the gun, take the cannoli (line from The Godfather)
• Like a pig from a gun
• Machine Gun Kelly (Nickname of George Kelly)
• Mother Superior jumped the gun (Beatles song lyric)
• Put a gun to your head
• Put a tiger in Your Tank (Esso advertising slogan)
• Red Army Fraction (German left wing terrorist group also call Red Army Faction)
• Secret weapon
• See how they run like pigs from a gun (The Beatles song lyric)
• Send a salami to your boy in the army
• Sherman tanks (Cockney rhyming slang for Yanks)
• Smoking gun
• Some of our best men are women (United States Army advertising slogan)
• Son of a gun
• Tanked up
• The Army Game (BBC comedy television series)
• 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 Sally Army (Nickname of the Salvation Army)
• The Tartan Army
• The army national guard, you can (US Army National Guard advertising slogan)
• The dogs kids love to bite (Armour Hot Dogs advertising slogan)
• The forgotten army
• There's a tiger in my tank
• Under the gun
• You and whose army?
• You stupid boy! (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)
• You're in the army now