to beat swords into ploughshares
1beat swords into ploughshares — If people beat swords into ploughshares, they spend money on humanitarian purposes rather than weapons. (The American English spelling is plowshares ) …
2beat swords into ploughshares — If people beat swords into ploughshares, they spend money on humanitarian purposes rather than weapons. (The American English spelling is plowshares ) (Dorking School Dictionary) …
3beat swords into ploughshares — beat/turn swords into ploughshares formal to stop preparing for war and to start using the money you previously spent on weapons to improve people s lives. It would have been unrealistic to expect a country like the United States to turn swords… …
4beat swords into ploughshares — ► beat (or turn) swords into ploughshares devote resources to peaceful rather than warlike ends. [ORIGIN: with biblical allusion to the books of Isaiah (chapter 2) and Micah (chapter 4).] Main Entry: ↑sword …
5beat swords into ploughshares — beat (or turn) swords into ploughshares devote resources to peaceful rather than warlike ends Origin: with biblical allusion to Is. 2:4 and Mic. 4:3 …
6beat swords into ploughshares — Meaning Origin From The Bible, Old Testament, Isaiah ii They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more …
7beat (or turn) swords into ploughshares — devote resources to peaceful rather than warlike ends. [with biblical allusion to Is. 2:4 and Mic. 4:3.] → sword …
8turn swords into ploughshares — beat/turn swords into ploughshares formal to stop preparing for war and to start using the money you previously spent on weapons to improve people s lives. It would have been unrealistic to expect a country like the United States to turn swords… …
9turn swords into ploughshares — ► beat (or turn) swords into ploughshares devote resources to peaceful rather than warlike ends. [ORIGIN: with biblical allusion to the books of Isaiah (chapter 2) and Micah (chapter 4).] Main Entry: ↑sword …
10Swords to ploughshares — is a concept in which military weapons or technologies are converted for peaceful civilian applications. The plowshare is often used to symbolize creative tools that benefit mankind, as opposed to destructive tools of war, symbolized by the sword …
