Weapon Phrases

Phrases

• A stick to beat you with
• A tiger in your tank
• An ill-favoured thing sir, but mine own
• Anti personnel mine
• Armed and dangerous
• Armed intervention
• Armed struggle
• Armed to the hilt
• Armed to the teeth
• As busy as a one armed paper hanger
• As straight as an arrow
• Assault with a deadly weapon
• At knife point
• At the end of a gun
• Axe to grind
• Back to the salt mine
• Ban the bomb
• Before you could say knife
• Bite the bullet
• Blunt instrument
• Boomerang effect
• Born within the sound of Bow Bells
• Bow and arrow squad
• Bow and scrape
• Bow down before
• Bow out
• Bow the knee
• Bow to fate
• Bow to reason
• Bricks and mortar (Cockney rhyming slang for daughter)
• Broken Arrow (James Stewart movie)
• Bullet Joe (Nickname of baseball player Charles Rogan)
• Cannon fodder
• Chemical cosh
• Chew a gun
• Choose your weapon
• Clicks and mortar
• Cloak and dagger
• Club together
• Crack the whip
• Crazy Gun Barney (Nickname of Barney Fife (Don Knotts))
• Do You Really Want to Hurt Me (Culture Club song)
• Doctor Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (Peter Sellers movie)
• Dodged a bullet
• Double edged sword
• Drunk tank
• Fair crack of the whip
• Fall on your sword
• Faster than a speeding bullet (A catchphrase from Superman)
• Father of The Atomic Bomb (Nickname of Robert Oppenheimer)
• Fight Club (Brad Pitt movie)
• Give it the gun
• Give someone a rocket
• Glee club
• Go under the knife
• Grunt cruncher (military tank - grunt is a slang term for infantryman)
• Gun down
• Hang up your sword
• Happiness Is A Warm Gun (The Beatles song)
• Have a second string to your bow have
• Have gun, will travel (A catchphrase from TV series)
• He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword
• Her Honeymoon - and it should have been mine! (Listerine Mouthwash advertising slogan)
• His Last Bow (Sherlock Holmes story)
• Hold a gun to his head
• I Me Mine (The Beatles song)
• I scratch your back and you scratch mine
• If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join our Club (Jacob's Club advertising slogan)
• In the club
• In the line of fire
• In the pudding club
• Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
• Is this a dagger which I see before me?
• It's not rocket science
• Join the club
• Jump the gun
• Karma Chameleon (Culture Club song)
• Knife and fork it
• Laser Rocket Arm (Nickname of Peyton Manning)
• Leave the gun, take the cannoli (line from The Godfather)
• Letter bomb
• Like a pig from a gun
• Looks like a bomb has hit it
• Loose cannon
• Love in This Club (Usher with Young Jeezy song)
• Mac the Knife (Nickname of Harold Macmillan)
• Mace your face
• Machine Gun Kelly (Nickname of George Kelly)
• Mack The Knife (Bertold Brecht song)
• Maggette Machete (Nickname of Corey Maggette)
• Magic bullet
• Make mine Moxie (Moxie soda advertising slogan)
• Make mine a double
• Merchant of death
• Mine host
• Mine is bigger than yours
• Mine of information
• More than one string to your bow
• Mother Superior jumped the gun (Beatles song lyric)
• My Boomerang Won't Come Back (Charlie Drake song)
• My friend, Joe Holmes, is now a horse (Arrow Shirts advertising slogan)
• Not the sharpest knife in the drawer
• Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine (Casablanca)
• On a knife edge
• One armed bandit
• Pack heat
• Packing heat
• Packing lead
• Pistol Pete (Nickname of Pete Maravich)
• Pistol Pete (Nickname of Pete Sampras)
• Pocket rocket
• Poor thing but mine own
• Put a gun to your head
• Put a tiger in Your Tank (Esso advertising slogan)
• Put to the sword
• Rifle through
• Rocket Man (Elton John song)
• Rubber bullet (a bullet made of rubber or plastic and used for riot control)
• Secret weapon
• See how they run like pigs from a gun (The Beatles song lyric)
• Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Beatles album and song)
• Shooting war
• Silver bullet (a simple and seeming effortless solution to a difficult problem)
• Sling beer
• Sling hash
• Sling your hook
• Smoking gun
• Son of a gun
• Spear carrier
• Sword and sandal
• Sword of Damocles
• Sword play
• Take a bow
• That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine (Gene Autry song)
• That's not a knife; that's a knife (Crocodile Dundee)
• The Axe effect (Axe deodorant advertising slogan)
• The Cajun Cannon (Nickname of Bobby Hebert)
• The Crazy Gang (Nickname of Wimbledon Football Club)
• The Fast Gun From Texas (Nickname of Dan Troop (John Russell))
• The Gun That Won The West (Nickname of the Colt revolver)
• The It Girl (Nickname of Clara Bow)
• The Man With The Golden Gun (James Bond movie Roger Moore)
• The Missile (Nickname of Qadry Ismail)
• The Mississippi Bullet (Nickname of Monta Ellis)
• The Pocket Rocket (Nickname of Wayne McCullough Flag of Northern Ireland Flag of Ireland)
• The Polish Cannon (Nickname of Sebastian Janikowski)
• The Reading Rifle (Nickname of Carl Furillo)
• The Red Rocket (Nickname of Matt Bonner)
• The Rocket (Nickname of Raghib Ismail)
• The Rocket (Nickname of Roger Clemens)
• The Springfield Rifle (Nickname of Vic Raschi)
• The clean plate club
• The mile high club
• The name on the world's finest blades (Wilkinson Sword razors advertising slogan)
• The pen is mightier than sword
• There's a tiger in my tank
• There's no life like it (Canadian Armed Forces advertising slogan)
• Three line whip
• Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana (Groucho Marx line)
• Tooled up
• Twist the knife
• Two strings to his bow
• Under the cosh
• Under the gun
• Vacation is a world where there are no locks on the doors or the mind or the body (Club Med Resorts advertising slogan)
• Victory is mine
• We drink all we can, the rest we sell (Utica Club advertising slogan)
• We found the weapons of mass destruction
• Weapons free
• Weapons grade
• Weapons of mass destruction
• Weather bomb (a rapidly deepening low pressure area causing severe storms)
• Whip hand
• You could have cut the atmosphere with a knife
• You too can have a body like mine (Charles Atlas advertising slogan)
• You'll never put a better bit of butter on your knife (Country Life butter advertising slogan)
• Your guess is as good as mine
• Your place or mine?