Guerre

_Dans la guerre, comme a la guerre_ -- in war-time, people must accept of war's chances. ❋ Various (N/A)

Our table-furniture is not elegant, our plates are tin, there is no silver in our forks; but _à la guerre, comme à la guerre_. ❋ Various (N/A)

I got quite tired of hearing "_La guerre comme la guerre_" murmured to me by apologetic Bulgarians wanting to pretend that under normal circumstances his countrymen always had the best of table silver and napery. ❋ Frank Fox (1917)

True, I usually have to eat the bully beef parts next meal, but -- _à la guerre comme à la guerre_ -- I always might have been casualtied between meals, and then think what a fool I'd feel over my failure to make the most of the first. ❋ Various (1898)

She already often got sick of doing so, but _à la guerre comme à la guerre_. ❋ Henry James (1879)

But _à la guerre comme à la guerre_, and I have slept in worse conditions than those of your house, madame. ❋ Unknown (1870)

He must have seen what I felt, for he said: '_À la guerre comme à la guerre_. ❋ Elizabeth Latimer (1863)

"_À la guerre, comme à la guerre_," -- responded Justine, and put out the light. ❋ Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1850)

It is entirely to the advantage of the passengers in your care to bow to the inevitable and avoid all insubordination -- _à la guerre comme à la guerre_. " ❋ Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff (1903)

"Bad luck, no doubt," he replied, "_mais la guerre c'est la guerre_. ❋ John Galsworthy (1900)

As it happens, English-speakers did employ the word guerre toward the end of the Middle English period, and they kept it in circulation for roughly ten generations. ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)

The word guerre is feminine; since the modifying adjective should also be feminine, the correct version of this is grande guerre. ❋ Unknown (2010)

'May I then ask, without offending this lady, whose nom de guerre is I find settled to be Monimia – where you have seen enough of her to form a judgment so much in her favour?' ❋ Unknown (1793)

In the main city on Sri Lanka's northernmost peninsula, besieged by 2½ decades of bloody sectarian violence until last May, the spicy samosa sold by street vendors throughout the city is still known by its nom de guerre: midi-vedi, the Tamil word for land mine. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"I believe 'gurrier' is derived from the French word 'guerre', which means 'war'. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Because further research revealed her great-grandfather had actually won the Croix de guerre, which is rather more distinguished. ❋ John Crace (2011)

Jewish gangsters who ruled many big-city streets in the early part of the twentieth century often adopted the same nom de guerre. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)