Sentences with up in arms
up in arm
U u - Environmental groups are up in arms about plans to sink an oil well close to Hadrian's Wall.
- The union members are up in arms over threats of pay cuts.
- To arm the troops.
- He was armed with statistics and facts.
- To arm a security system; to arm oneself with persuasive arguments.
- His religious convictions kept him from bearing arms, but he served as an ambulance driver with the Red Cross.
- To take up arms against the enemy.
- The number of men under arms is no longer the decisive factor in warfare.
- There is no need to get up in arms over such a trifle.