have been in the wars

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to have been injured in a fight or an accident

   This is how I see. Please?

In the movies · 2

• Oh, yeah. Been in the wars, have we?Monty Python's The Meaning of Life1983
• This is how I see. Please?National Theatre Live: Frankenstein2011
• My, you have been in the wars.National Theatre Live: Frankenstein2011
• We have been called to warMulan2020
• Hyenas and lions have been at war since the beginning of time.The Lion King2019
• Since when have you been interested in the war effort, patriotism and all that?Amazing Grace2006
• two years of war, when with a little common sense and bad manners, there would have been no war at all.The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1943

Learn it in full scenes

• Amazing Grace2006
  • Wilberforce Meets Barbara in Bath
  • Wilberforce Tells Richard He Found God
  • Pitt Asks Wilberforce to Return
• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1943
  • War Starts at Midnight
  • The Home Guard Exercise Turns Real
  • General Wynne-Candy Is Taken Prisoner

From the same entry

• a war of nerves
• a war of words
• all's fair in love and war
• the be - all and end - all
• as was
• been and done
• if it wasn't for
• leave be
• - to - be
• is what it is
• the bee's knees
• have a bee in your bonnet