单词 | to take the battle to the enemy |
释义 | > as lemmasto take the battle to the enemy k. to take the battle to the enemy and variants: to go on the offensive; to pursue one's opponent aggressively.Cf. to carry the war into the enemy's camp at carry v. Phrases 10. ΚΠ 1861 P. H. Fitzgerald Rom. Candles xiii. 156 A good hard-hitting title of a satirical character, taking the war into the enemy's camp. 1936 Oshkosh (Wisconsin) Northwestern 17 Sept. 6/3 People seem to like a speaker better when he pounds the table with his fist, defies the skies and all the powers that be and ‘takes the battle to the enemy’. 1958 Times 14 Nov. 19/1 They [sc. the rugby team] continued to take the battle to the foe for the first part of the second half. 1974 S. Van Dyck in C. Shields Racing with Cornelius Shields & Masters (rev. ed.) xvii. 188 Take the fight to the competition by acting first, offensively.., or by being at the line in the best spot at the start. 1984 D. Lewis & H. Wallace Policies into Pract. i. 25 Bolstered by what appeared to be the Secretary of State's sympathy for their cause, the governors..took the war to the enemy's camp. 2014 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 23 Apr. 16 He has picked a younger team that will take the battle to the enemy at the 2015 election. < as lemmas |
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