Convoy Phrases

Phrases

• Abandon ship
• 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 give up the ship (Cutty Sark Whisky advertising slogan)
• Don't mention the war (A catchphrase from Faulty Towers)
• Don't spoil the ship for a ha'pworth of tar
• 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 down with the ship
• Go to war
• Had a good war (to have been successful during a military campaign)
• Have no truck with
• 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)
• Jump ship
• La Belle Epoque (the golden age or beautiful era preceding the First World War)
• Like rats leaving a sinking ship
• Loose lips sink ships (World War II advertising slogan)
• Make love not war
• Make war
• Masters Of War (Bob Dylan song)
• Mother ship
• My ship has come in
• Run a tight ship
• Shape up or ship out
• Ship of fools
• Ship shape and Bristol fashion
• Ship to shore

• Shooting war
• Spoils of war
• That ship has sailed
• The Big Ship Sails on The Ally-Ally-Oh (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Cold War
• The Strength of Experience (GMC Truck advertising slogan)
• 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)
• We are professional grade (GMC Truck advertising slogan)
• What did you do in the war Daddy?
• When war is declared, truth is the first casualty