Conflict Phrases

Phrases

• A pitched battle
• A straight fight
• Agree to disagree
• All out war
• All's fair in love and war
• An uphill battle
• Apple of discord
• Armageddon out of here
• Armed struggle
• Art Of War (Sun Tzu book)
• Art of war
• Articles of war
• Asking for trouble
• Battle of the sexes
• Battle of wits
• Battle ready
• Battle royal
• Battle stations
• Black and white unite and fight (Political slogan)
• Borrow trouble
• Charge of the Light Brigade (British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a poem by Tennyson)
• Clash of civilizations
• Clash of culture
• Clash of the titans
• Conflict of interest
• Conflict resolution
• Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
• Don't mention the war (A catchphrase from Faulty Towers)
• Don't trouble your pretty little head about it
• Don't you know there's a war on? (WWII slogan)
• Double trouble
• Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble
• 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
• Fog of war
• Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room (Dr.Strangelove)
• Get ready to rumble (prepare to fight or do battle)
• Go to war
• Had a good war (to have been successful during a military campaign)
• Half the battle
• He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day
• Here comes trouble
• How goes the battle?
• I Knew You Were Trouble (Taylor Swift song)
• 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 the heat of battle
• In trouble
• La Belle Epoque (the golden age or beautiful era preceding the First World War)
• Let battle commence
• Life and death struggle

• Line of least resistance
• Live to fight another day
• London Calling (The Clash song)
• Looking for trouble
• Loose lips sink ships (World War II advertising slogan)
• Make love not war
• Make trouble
• Make war
• Masters Of War (Bob Dylan song)
• Nose for trouble
• Pick a fight
• Pillow fight
• Resistance is futile (A catchphrase from Star Trek)
• Resistance is useless
• Richard of York gave battle in vain
• Running battle
• Shooting war
• Spoiling for a fight
• Spoils of war
• Stand up fight
• Stir up trouble
• The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton
• The Cold War
• The War Of The Roses (Michael Douglas movie)
• The battle of the bulge
• The fog of war (confusion caused by the chaos of battle)
• The fortunes of war
• The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong (quotation from the Bible - Ecclesiastes
• The war to end wars
• This is a local shop, we'll have no trouble here (A catchphrase from The League of Gentlemen)
• Tittle tattle lost the battle (WWII slogan)
• Trouble and strife (Cockney rhyming slang for wife)
• Trouble in Paradise
• Trouble with a capital T
• Tummy trouble
• Up to your neck in trouble
• 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)
• We will fight on the beaches
• What did you do in the war Daddy?
• When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me (Beatles song lyric)
• When war is declared, truth is the first casualty
• You can't fight city hall