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.

• Rube Goldberg
• rub elbows with
• rub elbows with someone
• rub it in
• rub nose in it
• rub off
• rub off on
• rub off on someone
• rub of the green
• rub out
• rub salt in the wound
• rub salt into someone's wounds
• rub salt into the wound
• rub salt into wounds
• rub shoulders with
• rub shoulders with someone
• rub someone out
• rub someone's nose in it
• rub someone the wrong way
• rub someone up the wrong way
• rub the wrong way
• rub up the wrong way
• rude awakening
• ruffle feathers
• ruffle someone's feathers