beat/turn swords into plowshares
idiom
literary
: to stop fighting wars and begin to live peacefully
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Atoms for Peace, the postwar federal nuclear-power program announced by President Dwight Eisenhower, in 1953, aimed to turn swords into plowshares.
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Daniel Ford, The New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2022
This is the same European Union based on a post-World War II peace project that would only turn swords into plowshares to recreate a welfare continent of unprecedented riches.
—Raf Casert, ajc, 28 Feb. 2022
Daniel Ford, The New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2022
This is the same European Union based on a post-World War II peace project that would only turn swords into plowshares to recreate a welfare continent of unprecedented riches.
—Raf Casert, ajc, 28 Feb. 2022
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