Phrase Hound found 22 phrases and 4 compound words that contain arrows. The most common are listed below. Open arrows in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 22
- slings and arrowsHardships or adverse circumstances.
- bows and arrowsplural of bow and arrow: A weapon consisting of a bow and a supply of arrows, often kept in a quiver.
- Broken Arrowsplural of Broken Arrow: A callout marker that consists of a dashed line with an arrowhead.
- Dutch arrowsplural of Dutch arrow: a Swiss arrow
- elf arrowsplural of elf arrow: A prehistoric flint arrowhead.
- fire arrowsplural of fire arrow: A metal dart or arrow furnished with a combustible such as gunpowder for setting fire to ships.
- green arrowsplural of green arrow: Achillea millefolium.
- poison arrowsplural of poison arrow: A sharp object pointing toward something (e.g., toward a door, or a person), believed to disrupt the flow of energy and have harmful effects.
- red arrowsplural of red arrow: A libellulid dragonfly, Rhodothemis lieftincki, inhabiting Australia, the males of which are bright red.
- straight arrowsplural of straight arrow: Someone who behaves according to conventional standards; one noted for honesty and integrity.
- arrows of loveplural of arrow of love: An arrow, fired by Cupid or similar cherub, that magically induces love in whomever it strikes.
- broad arrowsplural of broad arrow: a metal arrowhead, comprising a tang and two barbs meeting at a point; used traditionally in heraldry, and later by the British government to mark government property and convict uniforms.
- cool arrowsplural of cool arrow: An asshole (especially in the context of a jocular phonetic reception by an American of a Hispanic saying the Spanish word culero, meaning "asshole").
- fat arrowsplural of fat arrow: The => symbol, which has specific meanings in various programming languages.
- life-arrowsplural of life-arrow: A stick with a line attached that was fired from a musket to a ship that had foundered.
- possession arrowsplural of possession arrow: An arrow that determines which side possesses the ball in cases where it is otherwise unclear. In such cases, possession of the ball is awarded to the team that is moving in the direction of the possession arrow …
- sea arrowsplural of sea arrow: A squid of the genus Ommastrephes.
- Swiss arrowsplural of Swiss arrow: a dart in the form of arrow with an extra notch with which it is thrown using a string
- arrows of timeplural of arrow of time: The direction of time within a four-dimensional relativistic view of the cosmos.
- whistling arrowsplural of whistling arrow: An arrow carved such that it makes a high-pitched whistle when fired; historically used by nomadic peoples in the Eurasian Steppe.
- Peirce arrowsplural of Peirce arrow: The downward arrow symbol ↓ denoting the NOR operation.
- arrows in the quiverplural of arrow in the quiver: One of several available options or courses of action.
Compound words 4
- arrowstonesplural of arrowstone: Any member of the extinct order †Belemnitida of Mesozoic marine cephalopods, very similar in many ways to the modern squid and closely related to the modern cuttlefish.
- demarrowsthird-person singular simple present indicative of demarrow: To remove the marrow from bone tissue
- reharrowsthird-person singular simple present indicative of reharrow: To harrow again.
- renarrowsthird-person singular simple present indicative of renarrow: To narrow again