beat/turn swords into ploughshares

formal

to stop preparing for war and to start using the money you previously spent on weapons to improve people's lives.

It would have been unrealistic to expect a country like the United States to turn swords into ploughshares the moment the Cold War ended.

• go stag
• go straight
• Go take a running jump!
• Go tell it to the marines.
• Go tell that to the marines.
• go the distance
• go the extra mile
• go the full distance
• go the whole hog
• go the whole nine yards
• go thin on top
• go through
• go through fire and water
• go through hell
• go through hoops
• go through like a dose of salts
• go through like a hot knife through butter
• go through like a knife through butter
• go through someone like a dose of salts
• go through something like a dose of salts
• go through something like a hot knife through butter
• go through something like a knife through butter
• go through the floor
• go through the mill
• go through the motions