UP IN ARMS

Activity

Working, at work, on duty, in harness; up in arms; on one's legs, at call; up and doing, up and stirring.

Attack

Up in arms.

Discord

At odds, at loggerheads, at daggers drawn, at variance, at issue, at cross purposes, at sixes and sevens, at feud, at high words; up in arms, together by the ears, in hot water, embroiled.

Enmity

Adjective: inimical, unfriendly, hostile; at enmity, at variance, at daggers drawn,at open war with; up in arms against; in bad odor with.

Opposition

In hostile array, front to front, with crossed bayonets, at daggers drawn; up in arms; resistant.

Preparation

In full feather, in best bib and tucker; in harness, at harness; in the saddle, in arms, in battle array, in war paint; up in arms; armed at all points, armed to the teeth, armed cap a pie; sword in hand; booted and spurred.

Resentment

Flushed with anger, flushed with rage; in a huff, in a stew, in a fume, in a pucker, in a passion, in a rage, in a fury, in a taking, in a way; on one's high ropes, up in arms; in high dudgeon.

Resistance

Kick, kick against; recalcitrate, kick against the pricks; oppose; fly in the face of; lift the hand against; (attack); rise up in arms; (war); strike, turn out; draw up a round robin; (remonstrate); revolt; (disobey); make a riot.

Adjective: resisting;Verb: resistive, resistant; refractory; (disobedient); recalcitrant, renitent; up in arms.

Warfare

Verb: arm; raise troops, mobilize troops; raise up in arms; take up the cudgels; take up arms, fly to arms, appeal to arms, fly to the sword; draw the sword, unsheathe the sword; dig up the hatchet, dig up the tomahawk; go to war, wage war, 'let slip the dogs of war'; cry havoc; kindle the torch of war, light the torch of war; raise one's banner, raise the fire cross; hoist the black flag; throw away, fling away the scabbard; enroll, enlist; take the field; take the law into one's own hands; do battle, give battle, join battle, engage in battle, go to battle; flesh one's sword; set to, fall to, engage, measure swords with, draw the trigger, cross swords; come to blows, come to close quarters; fight; combat; contend; battle with, break a lance with.

Adjective: contending, contentious; armed, armed to the teeth, armed cap-a-pie; sword in hand; in arms, under arms, up in arms; at war with; bristling with arms; in battle array, in open arms, in the field; embattled; battled.

Up in arms and chaste and whole (Twist in my Sobriety; performing artist: Tanita Tikaram)

Up in Arms (1944)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

That he was never trained up in arms.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "UP IN ARMS": be up in arms ♦ be up in arms about ♦ be up in arms against ♦ rise up in arms ♦ up in arms against. Additional references.

Albanian

shumë i zemëruar, me pushkë në dorë. (various references)

Bulgarian 

готов за съпротива, готов за борба, въстанал (in revolt, revolted), наежен (with his hackles up), протестирам (declaim, kick, object, obtest, outcry, protest, remonstrate). (various references)

German

sich empören gegen (to be up in arms against). (various references)

Hebrew 

מוכן לקרב. (various references)

Hungarian

felfegyverzett (battlewagon, beweaponed), felfegyverez (accouter, arm, Armor, armour, fortify, militarize, to accoutre, to arm, to armor, to armour, to heel, to munition). (various references)

Pig Latin

upay inay armsay

Romanian

se ridica la luptã (rise up in arms), lupta contra (be up in arms against, fight, oppose), lua armele (rise up in arms, take up arms), fi rãsculat (be up in arms). (various references)

Russian 

готовый к борьбе, охваченный восстанием. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

negodovati (arm: be up in arms, cut up rough, deprecate, protest), koji negoduje (arm: up in arms). (various references)

Spanish

sublevarse (be up in arms, mutiny, rebel, revolt, rise), haberse levantado en armas (be up in arms), alzarse en armas (rise up in arms). (various references)

Swedish

vara upprörd över (be up in arms about). (various references)

Turkish

protesto eden (indignant, protesting, remonstrant), ayaklanmış (up), ateş püsküren (fulminant, fulminating). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: uranism.

-2 letters: animus, inarms, primas, primus, purins, purism, rumina, sprain, unarms, unrips.

-3 letters: airns, amins, amirs, arums, auris, inarm, mains, mairs, manus, minas, minus, munis, muras, naris, nipas, pains, pairs, paris, pians, pimas, pinas, pirns, prams, praus, prima, prims, prism, pumas, punas, purin, puris, rains, ramps, ramus, ranis, ruins, rumps, sarin, simar, sirup.

+2 letters: manuscript, puritanism, sporangium.

+3 letters: intercampus, manuscripts, pancratiums, praemunires, puritanisms.

+4 letters: epicureanism, manipulators, parsimonious, pelargoniums, permutations, planetariums, premeasuring, reassumption, spermagonium, supraliminal.

+5 letters: alphanumerics, angiospermous, ceruloplasmin, churchmanship, compurgations, epicureanisms, hyperurbanism, mousetrapping, paramountcies, pococurantism, promulgations, protactiniums, reassumptions, republicanism, supercriminal, superhumanity, supermilitant, superorganism, superromantic, underemphasis, unimportances, zoosporangium.