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War Phrases

249 phrases and expressions related to "war".

Phrases

  • 'Allo 'Allo! (BBC comedy television series)
  • A New Hope (George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series)
  • A bridge too far
  • A pitched battle
  • Admit defeat
  • Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall (Spike Milligan book)
  • Agent orange
  • All out war
  • All's fair in love and war
  • An uphill battle
  • Apocalypse Now (Marlon Brando movie)
  • Armed intervention
  • Armed struggle
  • Art Of War (Sun Tzu book)
  • Art of war
  • Articles of war
  • Attack of the Clones (George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series)
  • Ban the bomb
  • Bangers and mash
  • Battle of the sexes
  • Battle of wits
  • Battle ready
  • Battle royal
  • Battle stations
  • Beauty contest (a political contest in which the result is infuenced by personality and image more than by policy)
  • Beauty parade (a political contest in which the result is infuenced by personality and image more than by policy)
  • Been in the wars
  • Between the wars (The period between WWI and WWII)
  • Black Hawk Down (Ewan McGregor movie)
  • Body bag
  • Born On The Fourth Of July (Tom Cruise movie)
  • Bought the farm
  • Breast is best (slogan of breastfeeding campaign)
  • Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh book)
  • Butcher of the Somme (Nickname of General Douglas Haig)
  • Buy the farm
  • Call of Duty (video game title)
  • Cannon fodder
  • Carpet bombing
  • Catch 22 (Joseph Heller book)
  • Charge of the Light Brigade (British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a poem by Tennyson)
  • Class warfare
  • Clunk click every trip (Road Safety Campaign advertising slogan)
  • Collateral damage
  • Combat fatigue
  • Combat ready
  • Come out fighting
  • Conflict of interest
  • Conflict resolution
  • Crushing defeat
  • Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
  • Doctor Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (Peter Sellers movie)
  • Don't mention the war (A catchphrase from Faulty Towers)
  • Don't you know there's a war on? (WWII slogan)
  • Ethnic cleansing
  • Father of The Atomic Bomb (Nickname of Robert Oppenheimer)
  • Fighting chance
  • Fighting fit
  • Fighting mad
  • Fighting talk
  • Flanders Fields (tourist attraction in Belguim)
  • Fog of war
  • For mash get Smash (Cadbury's Smash advertising slogan)
  • Front line
  • Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick movie)
  • Gang warfare
  • Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room (Dr.Strangelove)
  • Germ warfare
  • Get ready to rumble (prepare to fight or do battle)
  • Go down fighting
  • Go to war
  • Guerrilla warfare
  • Had a good war (to have been successful during a military campaign)
  • Half the battle
  • Hand-to-gland combat (slang term for masturbation)
  • Heil Hitler
  • Holocaust denial
  • How goes the battle?
  • I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat (Winston Churchill quotation)
  • I love the smell of napalm in the morning (Apocalypse Now)
  • 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)
  • In Flanders fields the poppies blow (from a poem by McCrae)
  • In the heat of battle
  • Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (Harrison Ford / Steven Speilberg movie)
  • It is Sun what won it
  • Keep the field (- continue a military campaign)
  • Kung Fu Fighting (Carl Douglas song)
  • La Belle Epoque (the golden age or beautiful era preceding the First World War)
  • Lean mean fighting machine
  • Lest we forget
  • Let battle commence
  • Letter bomb
  • Lions led by donkeys
  • Looks like a bomb has hit it
  • Loose lips sink ships (World War II advertising slogan)
  • Lord Haw-Haw (Nickname of William Joyce)
  • Make love not war
  • Make war
  • March from Bridge on the River Kwai (Mitch Miller song)
  • Masters Of War (Bob Dylan song)
  • May the force be with you (A catchphrase from Star Wars)
  • Missing in action
  • Moaning Minnie
  • Monster Mash (Nickname of Jamal Mashburn)
  • News from the front
  • No contest
  • No man's land
  • Nom de guerre
  • Nuclear autumn
  • Nuclear option
  • Nuclear winter
  • On the warpath
  • Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more
  • Only A Pawn In Their Game (Bob Dylan song)
  • Open warfare (engaged in active fighting)
  • Overpaid, oversexed, and over here
  • Peace dividend
  • Pissing contest
  • Recent unpleasantness
  • Return of the Jedi (George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series)
  • Revenge of the Sith (George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series)
  • Richard of York gave battle in vain
  • Running battle
  • Sands Of Iwo Jima (John Wayne movie)
  • Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting (Elton John song)
  • Shell shock
  • Shock and awe
  • Shooting war
  • Slash and burn
  • Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
  • Snatching victory from the jaws of defeat
  • Spoils of war
  • Star Wars (Harrison Ford / George Lucas movie series)
  • Stop, Look and Listen; remember the Green Cross Code (UK Road Safety Campaign advertising slogan)
  • Street Fighting Man (Rolling Stones song)
  • Suicide is painless (title of the theme song to MASH tv series and film)
  • Take it to the mattresses
  • Take the field (begin a sporting event or a military campaign)
  • The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton
  • The Birth of a Nation (D W Griffith / Lillian Gish movie)
  • The Clone Wars (George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series)
  • The Cold War
  • The Deer Hunter (Robert De Niro movie)
  • The Empire Strikes Back (George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series)
  • The Fighting Cowboy (Nickname of James Tillis)
  • The Great Escape (Steve McQueen movie)
  • The Green Berets (John Wayne movie)
  • The Guns Of Navarone (Gregory Peck / David Niven movie)
  • The Heroes Of Telemark (Burt Lancaster / Richard Harris movie)
  • The Iron Curtain (notional barrier between capitalist West and communist states)
  • The Longest Day (John Wayne movie)
  • The Phantom Menace (George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series)
  • The Poor Bloody Infantry (term used to describe the British infantry in WWI)
  • The Sash My Father Wore (Irish traditional song)
  • The Shadow knows (A catchphrase from the crime fighting vigilante)
  • The War Of The Roses (Michael Douglas movie)
  • The Wild Geese (Richard Harris / Roger Moore movie)
  • The battle of the bulge
  • The fog of war (confusion caused by the chaos of battle)
  • The fortunes of war
  • The killing fields
  • The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong (quotation from the Bible - Ecclesiastes
  • The sash my father wore
  • The war to end wars
  • Tittle tattle lost the battle (WWII slogan)
  • Trench warfare (combat where troops face each other in trenches)
  • Up in arms
  • Wage war
  • Walking wounded
  • 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)
  • Weather bomb (a rapidly deepening low pressure area causing severe storms)
  • What did you do in the war Daddy?
  • When war is declared, truth is the first casualty
  • You are in a Beauty Contest Every Day of your Life (Camay Soap advertising slogan)
  • You can't handle the truth (A Few Good Men)
  • You know it makes sense (Road Safety Campaign advertising slogan)
  • Your country needs you

Related

  • All out war
  • All's fair in love and war
  • Art Of War (Sun Tzu book)
  • Art of war
  • Articles of war
  • Charge of the Light Brigade (British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a poem by Tennyson)
  • Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
  • Don't mention the war (A catchphrase from Faulty Towers)
  • Don't you know there's a war on? (WWII slogan)
  • Fog of war
  • Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room (Dr.Strangelove)
  • Go to war
  • Had a good war (to have been successful during a military campaign)
  • 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)
  • La Belle Epoque (the golden age or beautiful era preceding the First World War)
  • Loose lips sink ships (World War II advertising slogan)
  • Make love not war
  • Make war
  • Masters Of War (Bob Dylan song)
  • Shooting war
  • Spoils of war
  • The Cold War
  • 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
  • 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