Demob Phrases

Phrases

• Absent without leave
• All out war
• All's fair in love and war
• An army marches on its stomach
• An army of one (United States Army advertising slogan)
• Army Dreamers (Kate Bush song)
• Army strawberries (military slang term for prunes)
• Art Of War (Sun Tzu book)
• Art of war
• Articles of war
• Barmy army
• Be all that you can be (United States Army advertising slogan)
• Be all you can be (US Army advertising slogan)
• Be the best (British Army advertising slogan)
• By your leave
• 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
• Dad's Army (BBC comedy television series)
• Don't leave home without it (American Express advertising slogan)
• Don't leave your manners on the doorstep
• Don't mention the war (A catchphrase from Faulty Towers)
• Don't panic (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)
• Don't you know there's a war on? (WWII slogan)
• Drummed out of the army
• Field Marshall (the highest rank in the British Army)
• Fog of war
• French leave
• Gardening leave
• Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room (Dr.Strangelove)
• Go Greyhound and leave the driving to us (Greyhound Lines advertising slogan)
• Go to war
• Had a good war (to have been successful during a military campaign)
• Heart to God, hand to man (The Salvation Army advertising slogan)
• Hit the bricks (a cursory slang term telling someone to leave)
• 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 Army, the edge (Australian Army advertising slogan)
• Join the professionals (British Army advertising slogan)
• La Belle Epoque (the golden age or beautiful era preceding the First World War)
• Leave be
• Leave it out
• Leave no child behind (Political slogan)
• Leave no stone unturned
• Leave off
• Leave out
• Leave out door open
• Leave out in the cold
• Leave someone cold
• Leave the door open for
• Leave the gun, take the cannoli (line from The Godfather)
• Leave the nest
• Leave the room
• Leave well enough alone
• Leave your options open
• Leave yourself open

• Loose lips sink ships (World War II advertising slogan)
• Love them and leave them
• Make like a tree and leave
• Make love not war
• Make war
• Masters Of War (Bob Dylan song)
• Red Army Fraction (German left wing terrorist group also call Red Army Faction)
• Send a salami to your boy in the army
• Shoot through (to leave or abscond)
• Shooting war
• Softly As I Leave You (Frank Sinatra song)
• Some of our best men are women (United States Army advertising slogan)
• Spoils of war
• Take it or leave it
• Take leave of your senses
• That's going to leave a mark
• The Army Game (BBC comedy television series)
• The Cold War
• The Sally Army (Nickname of the Salvation Army)
• The Tartan Army
• The War Of The Roses (Michael Douglas movie)
• The army national guard, you can (US Army National Guard advertising slogan)
• The fog of war (confusion caused by the chaos of battle)
• The forgotten army
• 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'll leave the light on for you (Motel 6 advertising slogan)
• What did you do in the war Daddy?
• When war is declared, truth is the first casualty
• You and whose army?
• You can leave in a huff. If that's too soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff (Groucho Marx line)
• You stupid boy! (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)
• You're in the army now