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beat one's swords into ploughshares (三人称単数 現在形 beats one's swords into ploughshares, 現在分詞 beating one's swords into ploughshares, 過去形 beat one's swords into ploughshares, 過去分詞 beaten one's swords into ploughshares または beat one's swords into ploughshares)
- (idiomatic) To refrain from destructive military or paramilitary acts (war, terrorism, etc.) and put energy and resources to peaceful ends that would otherwise go to violence.
- 1947, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services, Hearings ... on Sundry Legislation Affecting the Naval and Military Establishments, page 171:
- There are two choices before us: We can beat our plowshares into swords and prepare for war, or we can beat our swords into plowshares and prepare for peace.
- 2010, Anne Montgomery, “Resistance to U.S. Massacre in Iraq”, in Arthur J. Laffin, Anne Montgomery, editors, Swords into Plowshares:
- August 24, 2017, With careful tendering, Azim will fructify, in NewsDay (Zimbabwe)
- (literally) To convert military technologies to peaceful civilian applications.
- 1946, Robert Percy Williams, Military Establishment Appropriation Bill for 1947, page 848:
- And as for “beating our swords into plowshares” in the case of peacetime utilization of actual war implements: The United States Forest Service is testing the Pyrogel (goop) incendiary mixture for burning slash in forest areas. The Chemical Warfare Service in Hawaii is reconverting Napalm incendiary filler into liquid soap for use by the local military. Incendiary bombs have been furnished for experimentation in removing stumps in areas where means other than burning is impossible.
- 1951, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Preparedness, Universal Military Training and Service Act of 1951, page 916:
- Briefly stated, Mr. Truman pictured how the nations of the world could, through “real disarmament," turn swords into plowshares and transform our armaments "into foods, medicines, tools for use in undeveloped areas, and into other aids for human advancement. This is the goal," the President said, "we must keep before us, and the vision in which we must never lose faith."
- 2007 April 8, William Kates, “Animal News to Conserve: Deer or Energy?”, in The Virginian Pilot:
- "It's a classic moment to see one of these deer on top of an ammunition bunker," he said. "You go back to that old saying about beating your swords into plowshares. You put a military base to bed and turn it into a conservation park."
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