take up arms :

Search Words
You can search or browse for words

take up arms


  • v  commence hostilities
News & Articles

  • Egypt's Brotherhood will not take up arms: senior leader
    CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood will not take up arms after the military overthrew its member Mohamed Mursi as president but it will not accept a military coup, a senior leader said on Thursday. "This is a military coup. We will remain and deprive it of legitimacy until it is corrected," Mohamed El-Beltagy told reporters at a pro-Mursi sit-in outside a mosque in Cairo. Asked if the ...
    July 4, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Bee Dictionary: Search, browse, look at common errors, idioms and more.