war clouds are gathering
also clouds of war are gathering literaryIf you say that war clouds are gathering over a particular country, you mean that a war seems increasingly likely there:
It was the 1930s and war clouds were gathering on the horizon in Europe.
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War
- antebellum
- battle-scarred
- bellicose
- belligerent
- biological warfare
- concord
- crusade
- hostile
- militarism
- militarist
- pacific
- peacekeeping
- phoney war
- pro-war
- scorched-earth policy
- the Great War
- the Second World War
- war-torn
- warfare
- warlike
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