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même combatS'emploie pour souligner la similitude entre deux situations.Rate it:

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armed forcesThe ServicesRate it:

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open-armedcordial; friendly; welcomingRate it:

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open-armedHaving one's arms open and apartRate it:

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brain bucketA protective helmet, as worn, for example, by a motorcyclist, bicyclist, or soldier in combat.Rate it:

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ride shotgunProbably arose in early-20th-century Western fiction and movies to describe an employee armed with a rifle or shotgun riding next to a stagecoach driver for protection.Rate it:

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baptism of fireThe first experience of a severe ordeal, especially a first experience of military combatRate it:

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armé de pied en capArmed from head to foot, cap-à-pie.Rate it:

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c'est le pot de terre contre le pot de ferIt is a most unequal combat.Rate it:

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certamen singularesingle combat.Rate it:

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cum telo esseto be armed.Rate it:

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enemy combatantAny person in an armed conflict who may be properly detained under the laws and customs of war.Rate it:

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expeditus (opp. impeditus) milesa soldier lightly armed, ready for battle.Rate it:

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fill one's handTo draw one's handgun, especially for an armed confrontation.Rate it:

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haut les mainsOrdre que l’on donne à une personne de lever les bras, les mains ouvertes, pour montrer qu’elle n’a pas d’armes, qu’elle ne veut ni attaquer ni se défendre ; notamment dans un combat, ordre donné à l’adversaire.Rate it:

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have atTo attack; to engage in combat with.Rate it:

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hired gunA person who is employed as an armed guard, enforcer, or mercenary and who is prepared to use gunplay or similar violent methods in order to assert the interests of his or her employer.Rate it:

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joustA tilting match: a mock combat between two mounted knights or men-at-arms using lances in the lists or enclosed field.Rate it:

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les deux armées en sont aux mainsThe two armies are in close combat, have come to close quarters.Rate it:

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man-of-warAn armed naval vessel, primarily one armed with cannon and propelled by sails.Rate it:

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Mexican standoffA confrontation between two or more armed parties, neither of which wants to attack first (fearing that the other could retaliate), but neither of which will disarm (for fear the other will attack).Rate it:

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pitched battleA hostile engagement involving sustained, full-scale fighting between opposing forces in close combat.Rate it:

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point manIn combat, the soldier who takes point; the soldier who assumes the first and most exposed position in a combat military formation; the lead soldier/unit advancing through hostile or unsecured territory.Rate it:

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povocare aliquem ad certamen singulareto challenge some one to single combat.Rate it:

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res spectat ad vim (arma)there seems a prospect of armed violence; things look like violence.Rate it:

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sword and sorceryOf or pertaining to a genre of narratives—including short stories, novels, television shows, films, and computer games—which combines wizardry and other fantastical supernatural elements with violent combat using medieval weaponry..Rate it:

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Walkyrie vendredi, dimanche WalhallaLa gloire au combat mène au paradis des guerriers.Rate it:

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