make love, not war
make love, not war
cliché A slogan promoting peace and love in opposition to war and violence. A: "I say we go in and bomb them back to the Stone Age!" B: "Come on, man, make love, not war!"
See also: make, not, war
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
swords into ploughshares
Make peace, not war. This expression comes from the Bible, when the prophet Isaiah has a vision in which people “shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks” (Isaiah 2:4). O. Henry played on this cliché (The Moment of Victory, 1909): “His bayonet beaten into a cheese slicer.” Opponents of the Vietnam War in the 1960s abandoned it altogether and invented the slogan, Make love, not war.
See also: ploughshares, sword
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
- strong silent type
- strong, silent type
- the strong, silent type
- be careful what you wish for(, it might (just) come true)
- do not try this at home
- a sight to behold
- (it's) (all) Greek to me
- Greek to me
- Greek to me, it's
- it's all Greek to me