fix bayonets
Mount the knives
Fix bayonets is a military command ordering soldiers to attach bayonets to their rifles, preparing for close combat.
The order signals that fighting is about to become hand-to-hand, making it one of the most dramatic commands in warfare.
Figuratively, it describes readying for a final, desperate confrontation: It's time to fix bayonets and fight this thing out.
- chargeCost or accusation
- over the topExcessively theatrical or extreme
- rifleLong-barreled shoulder weapon
- infantryGround combat troops
- assaultViolent offensive act
frontal assault · thrust · blade · steel · trench · warfare · musket · line infantry · attack · advance · command · soldiers · combat · close combat · melee · hand to hand · close quarters · stab
- drill commandsshoulder arms, fall in, port arms, order arms, forward
- military drillsrifle drills, marching, about face, at ease, forward march
- Bugle Callsreveille, taps, last post, first call, mess call
- military commandsattention, halt, fall back, advance, attack
fix bayonetsretreat
Sanctuary or withdrawal
fall back · withdraw · disengage · beat a retreat · pull back
fix bayonetsground arms
Military order to disarm
order arms · stand easy · at ease · shoulder arms · stack arms
fix bayonetscease fire
Suspension of armed conflict
stand down · surrender · capitulate · armistice · truce
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