take up arms

拿起武器参军交战卷土重来

take up arms 的定义

  1. Also, take up the cudgels. Become involved in a conflict, either physical or verbal, as in The Kurds took up arms against the Iranians at least two centuries ago, or Some believe it's the vice-president's job to take up the cudgels for the president. The first term originated in the 1400s in the sense of going to war. The variant, alluding to cudgels as weapons, has been used figuratively since the mid-1600s and is probably obsolescent.

take up arms 近义词

take up arms

等同于 rebel

take up arms

等同于 revolt

take up arms

等同于 rise

take up arms

等同于 war

take up arms

等同于 call to arms

更多take up arms例句

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  2. “I think for trans men who are dating every time they hook up they have another coming out,” Sandler said.
  3. In that photo, Merabet has a big smile that spreads across his whole face and lights up his eyes.
  4. And now, similarly, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee: "Bend over and take it like a prisoner!"
  5. We won't find out this season, though it comes up occasionally.
  6. What need to look to right or left when you are swallowing up free mile after mile of dizzying road?
  7. Most of the men leaped up, caught hold of spears or knives, and rushed out.
  8. Some weeks after, the creditor chanced to be in Boston, and in walking up Tremont street, encountered his enterprising friend.
  9. In less than ten minutes, the bivouac was broken up, and our little army on the march.
  10. The bride elect rushes up to him, and so they both step down to the foot-lights.