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'Allo 'Allo! ( BBC comedy television series )
A New Hope ( George Lucas movie in the Star
Wars
series )
A bridge too far
A pitched
battle
Admit
defeat
Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall ( Spike Milligan book )
Agent orange
All out war
All's fair in love and war
An uphill
battle
Apocalypse Now ( Marlon Brando movie )
Armed intervention
Armed struggle
Art Of War ( Sun Tzu book )
Art of war
Articles of war
Attack of the Clones ( George Lucas movie in the Star
Wars
series )
Ban the
bomb
Bangers and
mash
Battle
of the sexes
Battle
of wits
Battle
ready
Battle
royal
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Battle
stations
Beauty
contest
( a political
contest
in which the result is infuenced by personality and image more than by policy )
Beauty parade ( a political
contest
in which the result is infuenced by personality and image more than by policy )
Been in the
wars
Between the
wars
( The period between WWI and WWII )
Black Hawk Down ( Ewan McGregor movie )
Body bag
Born On The Fourth Of July ( Tom Cruise movie )
Bought the farm
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Breast is best ( slogan of breastfeeding
campaign
)
Brideshead Revisited ( Evelyn Waugh book )
Butcher of the Somme ( Nickname of General Douglas Haig )
Buy the farm
Call of Duty ( video game title )
Cannon fodder
Carpet bombing
Catch 22 ( Joseph Heller book )
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Charge of the Light Brigade ( British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a poem by Tennyson )
Class
warfare
Clunk click every trip ( Road Safety
Campaign
advertising slogan )
Collateral damage
Combat
fatigue
Combat
ready
Come out
fighting
Conflict
of interest
Conflict
resolution
Crushing
defeat
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
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Doctor Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The
Bomb
( Peter Sellers movie )
Don't mention the war ( A catchphrase from Faulty Towers )
Don't you know there's a war on? ( WWII slogan )
Ethnic cleansing
Father of The Atomic
Bomb
( Nickname of Robert Oppenheimer )
Fighting
chance
Fighting
fit
Fighting
mad
Fighting
talk
Flanders Fields ( tourist attraction in Belguim )
Fog of war
For
mash
get Smash ( Cadbury's Smash advertising slogan )
Front line
Full Metal Jacket ( Stanley Kubrick movie )
Gang
warfare
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room ( Dr.Strangelove )
Germ
warfare
Get ready to rumble ( prepare to fight or do
battle
)
Go down
fighting
Go to war
Guerrilla
warfare
Had a good war ( to have been successful during a military
campaign
)
Half the
battle
Hand-to-gland
combat
( slang term for masturbation )
Heil Hitler
Holocaust denial
How goes the battle?
I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat ( Winston Churchill quotation )
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I love the smell of napalm in the morning ( Apocalypse Now )
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 Flanders fields the poppies blow ( from a poem by McCrae )
In the heat of
battle
Indiana Jones And The Last
Crusade
( Harrison Ford / Steven Speilberg movie )
It is Sun what won it
Keep the field ( - continue a military
campaign
)
Kung Fu
Fighting
( Carl Douglas song )
La Belle Epoque ( the golden age or beautiful era preceding the First World War )
Lean mean
fighting
machine
Lest we forget
Let
battle
commence
Letter
bomb
Lions led by donkeys
Looks like a
bomb
has hit it
Loose lips sink ships ( World War II advertising slogan )
Lord Haw-Haw ( Nickname of William Joyce )
Make love not war
Make war
March from Bridge on the River Kwai ( Mitch Miller song )
Masters Of War ( Bob Dylan song )
May the force be with you ( A catchphrase from Star
Wars
)
Missing in action
Moaning Minnie
Monster
Mash
( Nickname of Jamal Mashburn )
News from the front
No
contest
No man's land
Nom de guerre
Nuclear autumn
Nuclear option
Nuclear winter
On the warpath
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more
Only A Pawn In Their Game ( Bob Dylan song )
Open
warfare
( engaged in active
fighting
)
Overpaid, oversexed, and over here
Peace dividend
Pissing
contest
Recent unpleasantness
Return of the Jedi ( George Lucas movie in the Star
Wars
series )
Revenge of the Sith ( George Lucas movie in the Star
Wars
series )
Richard of York gave
battle
in vain
Running
battle
Sands Of Iwo Jima ( John Wayne movie )
Saturday Night's Alright For
Fighting
( Elton John song )
Shell shock
Shock and awe
Shooting war
Slash and burn
Snatching
defeat
from the jaws of victory
Snatching victory from the jaws of
defeat
Spoils of war
Star
Wars
( Harrison Ford / George Lucas movie series )
Stop, Look and Listen; remember the Green Cross Code ( UK Road Safety
Campaign
advertising slogan )
Street
Fighting
Man ( Rolling Stones song )
Suicide is painless ( title of the theme song to
MASH
tv series and film )
Take it to the mattresses
Take the field ( begin a sporting event or a military
campaign
)
The
Battle
of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton
The Birth of a Nation ( D W Griffith / Lillian Gish movie )
The Clone
Wars
( George Lucas movie in the Star
Wars
series )
The Cold War
The Deer Hunter ( Robert De Niro movie )
The Empire Strikes Back ( George Lucas movie in the Star
Wars
series )
The
Fighting
Cowboy ( Nickname of James Tillis )
The Great Escape ( Steve McQueen movie )
The Green Berets ( John Wayne movie )
The Guns Of Navarone ( Gregory Peck / David Niven movie )
The Heroes Of Telemark ( Burt Lancaster / Richard Harris movie )
The Iron Curtain ( notional barrier between capitalist West and communist states )
The Longest Day ( John Wayne movie )
The Phantom Menace ( George Lucas movie in the Star
Wars
series )
The Poor Bloody Infantry ( term used to describe the British infantry in WWI )
The Sash My Father
Wore
( Irish traditional song )
The Shadow knows ( A catchphrase from the crime
fighting
vigilante )
The War Of The Roses ( Michael Douglas movie )
The Wild Geese ( Richard Harris / Roger Moore movie )
The
battle
of the bulge
The fog of war ( confusion caused by the chaos of
battle
)
The fortunes of war
The killing fields
The race is not to the swift, nor the
battle
to the strong ( quotation from the Bible - Ecclesiastes
The sash my father
wore
The war to end
wars
Tittle tattle lost the
battle
( WWII slogan )
Trench
warfare
(
combat
where troops face each other in trenches )
Up in arms
Wage war
Walking wounded
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 )
Weather
bomb
( a rapidly deepening low pressure area causing severe storms )
What did you do in the war Daddy?
When war is declared, truth is the first casualty
You are in a Beauty
Contest
Every Day of your Life ( Camay Soap advertising slogan )
You can't handle the truth ( A Few Good Men )
You know it makes sense ( Road Safety
Campaign
advertising slogan )
Your country needs you