ploughshares

beat swords into ploughshares

To abstain from destructive activities, such as war and violence (symbolized by swords), in favor of peaceful, constructive activities (symbolized by ploughshares, a farming implement). The phrase comes from the Bible. We must beat swords into ploughshares so that our children can inherit a peaceful world.

swords to ploughshares

1. The notion of converting military forces, technologies, or ideas into peaceful purposes. A shortening of the phrase "beat swords into ploughshares" from the Bible. (Spelled "plowshare" in American English.) Primarily heard in UK. The program aims to collect disused or surplus military equipment and put them to use in public health clinics in developing countries—swords to ploughshares, if you will.

2. By extension, the abstention from destructive activities, such as war and violence, in favor of peaceful, constructive activities. We must adopt a swords-to-ploughshares mentality if our children are ever to inherit a world worth living in.

turn swords into ploughshares

To abstain from destructive activities, such as war and violence (symbolized by swords), in favor of peaceful, constructive activities (symbolized by ploughshares, a farming implement). The phrase comes from the Bible. We must turn swords into ploughshares so that our children can inherit a peaceful world.

beat swords into ploughshares

turn swords into ploughshares

LITERARY

If people beat swords into ploughshares or turn swords into ploughshares, they stop fighting and instead use their resources and technology to do things to improve people's lives. Note: `Ploughshares' is spelled `plowshares' in American English. In a perfect world, there would be no need for any country to have armed forces and we would all beat our swords into ploughshares. For this country, turning swords into ploughshares and rocket plants into trolley bus factories is an economic necessity. Note: A ploughshare is one of the blades on a plough. This expression may come from the Bible: `They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.' (Isaiah 2:4).

beat (or turn) swords into ploughshares

devote resources to peaceful rather than aggressive or warlike ends.

The reference here is to the biblical image of God's peaceful rule: ‘they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks’ (Isaiah 2:4).

beat/turn swords into ˈploughshares

(literary) stop fighting and return to peaceful activitiesThis comes from the Bible. A ploughshare is a blade that forms part of a plough (= a large piece of farming equipment used for cutting the soil).

See also: beat, ploughshares, sword, turn

Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

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.

词组	ploughshares
释义	ploughshares beat swords into ploughshares To abstain from destructive activities, such as war and violence (symbolized by swords), in favor of peaceful, constructive activities (symbolized by ploughshares, a farming implement). The phrase comes from the Bible. We must beat swords into ploughshares so that our children can inherit a peaceful world. See also: beat, ploughshares, sword swords to ploughshares 1. The notion of converting military forces, technologies, or ideas into peaceful purposes. A shortening of the phrase "beat swords into ploughshares" from the Bible. (Spelled "plowshare" in American English.) Primarily heard in UK. The program aims to collect disused or surplus military equipment and put them to use in public health clinics in developing countries—swords to ploughshares, if you will. 2. By extension, the abstention from destructive activities, such as war and violence, in favor of peaceful, constructive activities. We must adopt a swords-to-ploughshares mentality if our children are ever to inherit a world worth living in. See also: ploughshares, sword turn swords into ploughshares To abstain from destructive activities, such as war and violence (symbolized by swords), in favor of peaceful, constructive activities (symbolized by ploughshares, a farming implement). The phrase comes from the Bible. We must turn swords into ploughshares so that our children can inherit a peaceful world. See also: ploughshares, sword, turn Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. beat swords into ploughshares or turn swords into ploughshares LITERARY If people beat swords into ploughshares or turn swords into ploughshares, they stop fighting and instead use their resources and technology to do things to improve people's lives. Note: `Ploughshares' is spelled `plowshares' in American English. In a perfect world, there would be no need for any country to have armed forces and we would all beat our swords into ploughshares. For this country, turning swords into ploughshares and rocket plants into trolley bus factories is an economic necessity. Note: A ploughshare is one of the blades on a plough. This expression may come from the Bible: `They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.' (Isaiah 2:4). See also: beat, ploughshares, sword Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. beat (or turn) swords into ploughshares devote resources to peaceful rather than aggressive or warlike ends. The reference here is to the biblical image of God's peaceful rule: ‘they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks’ (Isaiah 2:4). See also: beat, ploughshares, sword Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary beat/turn swords into ˈploughshares (literary) stop fighting and return to peaceful activitiesThis comes from the Bible. A ploughshare is a blade that forms part of a plough (= a large piece of farming equipment used for cutting the soil). See also: beat, ploughshares, sword, turn Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary 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 See also: beat swords into ploughshares beat swords into plowshares beat/turn swords into ploughshares plowshare turn swords into ploughshares have a finger in every pie have a/(one's) finger in every pie finger in every pie be just before you're generous be out of action References in periodicals archive The Ploughshares Fund (http://www.ploughshares.org/world-nuclear-stockpile-report) estimates that there are currently over 15,300 nuclear weapons in the world, over 90 percent of which are currently in possession of the two former cold war foes - the United States and Russia. Trump Tweet Raises Specter Of Nuclear Arms Race Joe Cirincione is president of the Ploughshares Fund and author of "Nuclear Nightmares: Securing the World Before It Is Too Late." How To Know If The Iran Deal Is A Good Deal The question of definitions is a grey area and, as Project Ploughshares points out, there are no internationally accepted definitions to differentiate civilian horn military firearms; nor is there agreement on what defines shooting and hunting firearms and their recreational use. Break the silence David Mackenzie, of Trident Ploughshares, said protesters had accessed the plane by cutting through a perimeter fence at the airport. Anti-war protesters' plane bid Trident Ploughshares say that a 65-year-old woman was the eighth anti-war protester arrested at Prestwick Airport yesterday. Police fears over airport war protest; 7 arrested on US plane The protest was the first of three planned by the anti-nuclear weapons group Trident Ploughshares, the CND and Faslane Peace Camp. Police arrest 113 protesters outside submarine base; FASLANE: Welsh councillor chains himself to wheelchair Trident Ploughshares campaigners plan to stage a march and sit-down protests at the docks. Demo at nuke sub More then 50 protesters from the campaign group Trident Ploughshares gathered in Whitehall outside the street leading to Tony Blair's official residence to protest at Britain's nuclear weapons stockpile. BIG CHAIN REACTION The programme, Guns Into Ploughshares, was recorded at St Columba's Church in Derry on Friday night during which a unique sculpture made from guns welded together into an "image of usefulness" and surmounted by a dove was unveiled. Praise the principle Among the places his poems have appeared are Atlanta Review, Callaloo, Green Mountains Review, Indiana Review, and Ploughshares. As the United States House of Representatives Prepares for an Historic Impeachment Vote, The 42nd President of the United States, William Jefferson Clinton, Weighs His Final Options Ploughshares Into Swords: Race, Rebellion, and Identity in Gabriel's Virginia, 1730-1810. Ploughshares Into Swords: Race, Rebellion, and Identity in Gabriel's Virginia, 1730-1810 Slowly swords can be turned into ploughshares and we can then hear the first strains of an Indo-Pakistan Ode to Joy. India and Pakistan: the road ahead Out of print since 1952, Ploughshares into Swords: Josiah Gorgas and Confederate Ordnance has been reissued in Texas A&M's Military History Series. Ploughshares into Swords: Josiah Gorgas and Confederate Ordnance Last year was remarkably active for virtually all Project Ploughshares program areas--and 2018 is turning out to be at least as busy. Our 2018 plan
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