phrase thesaurus

A list of phrases containing the word "war"...


  • 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 ( the meaning and origin of this phrase... )
  • Don't mention the war ( A catchphrase from Faulty Towers )
  • 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 to war
  • Had a good war ( to have been successful during a military campaign )
  • 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 )
  • La Belle Epoque ( the golden age or beautiful era preceding the First World War )
  • Loose lips sink ships ( World War II advertising slogan )
  • Make love not war
  • Make war
  • Masters Of War ( Bob Dylan song )
  • Shooting war
  • Spoils of war
  • The Cold War
  • 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 )
  • What did you do in the war Daddy?
  • When war is declared, truth is the first casualty

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