phoney war
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phoney war — UK US noun [countable] [singular phoney war plural phoney wars] a period of time during which people or governments are officially at war, but are not in fact fighting Thesaurus: general words relating to international relations … Useful english dictionary
phoney war — n [singular] a period during which a state of war officially exists but there is no actual fighting … Dictionary of contemporary English
Phoney War — The Phoney War Date 3 September 1939 – 10 May 1940 Location Maginot Line, Siegfried Line Result … Wikipedia
phoney war — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms phoney war : singular phoney war plural phoney wars a period of time during which people or governments are officially at war, but are not in fact fighting … English dictionary
phoney war — also phony war N SING A phoney war is when two opposing groups are openly hostile towards each other or are in competition with each other, as if they were at war, but there is no real fighting. [BRIT] There is a chance that the phoney war of the … English dictionary
Phoney War — noun During World War Two, the period of limited military activity from the outbreak of hostilities until the fall of France … Wiktionary
phoney war — noun (singular) a period during which a state of war officially exists but there is no actual fighting … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
phoney — an informal word meaning ‘sham, fake’ (adjective and noun), is of uncertain origin and not traced in print before 1900. Its currency was greatly boosted by the use of the term phoney war to refer to the relative inaction in the early months of… … Modern English usage
war — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ long, short ▪ impending, ongoing ▪ bloody ▪ all out, full scale, total … Collocations dictionary
phoney — adj. Phoney/phony is used with these nouns: ↑document, ↑war … Collocations dictionary
