Defeat Phrases

Phrases

• A lick of paint
• A pitched battle
• A stick to beat you with
• Admit defeat
• All out war
• All's fair in love and war
• An uphill battle
• Art Of War (Sun Tzu book)
• Art of war
• Articles of war
• Battle of the sexes
• Battle of wits
• Battle ready
• Battle royal
• Battle stations
• Beat It (Michael (Jackson song)
• Beat a hasty retreat
• Beat a path to your door
• Beat about the bush
• Beat hell out of
• Beat hollow
• Beat it!
• Beat someone black and blue
• Beat swords into ploughshares
• Beat the air
• Beat the band
• Beat the bushes
• Beat the clock
• Beat the living crap out of
• Beat the living daylights out of
• Beat the living snot out of
• Beat the pants off
• Beat the rap
• Beat the retreat
• Beat the rush
• Beat the snot out of
• Beat the stuffing out of
• Beat to a pulp
• Beat up
• Beat you to it
• Beat your brains out
• Beat your meat
• Behind the beat
• Brow beat
• Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door
• Charge of the Light Brigade (British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a poem by Tennyson)
• Crushing defeat
• Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
• Divide and conquer
• Don't mention the war (A catchphrase from Faulty Towers)
• Don't you know there's a war on? (WWII slogan)
• Edge out
• 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
• Graceful loser
• Had a good war (to have been successful during a military campaign)
• Half the battle
• Have you for breakfast
• How goes the battle?
• I want YOU for the US Army (World War I and World War II advertising slogan)
• If you can't beat em, join em
• If you vote for Goldwater, you'll get a war in Vietnam (Political slogan)
• In the heat of battle
• La Belle Epoque (the golden age or beautiful era preceding the First World War)

• Let battle commence
• Lick and a promise
• Lick into shape
• Lick someone's boots
• Lick your lips
• Lick your wounds
• Loose lips sink ships (World War II advertising slogan)
• Make love not war
• Make war
• Masters Of War (Bob Dylan song)
• Moral victory
• Mother's ruin
• My heart missed a beat
• Off beat
• On the beat
• Richard of York gave battle in vain
• Road to ruin
• Row up Salt River
• Running battle
• Say uncle
• Self defeating
• She Stoops to Conquer (play by Oliver Goldsmith)
• Shooting war
• Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
• Snatching victory from the jaws of defeat
• Spoils of war
• The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton
• The Cold War
• The Hick from French Lick (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The Mersey beat
• The War Of The Roses (Michael Douglas movie)
• The battle of the bulge
• The beat goes on
• The bobby on the beat
• 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
• The workers united shall never be defeated
• Tittle tattle lost the battle (WWII slogan)
• To beat the band
• Wage war
• Walking to the beat of a different drummer
• 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