- been in the wars
- (UK)If someone has been in the wars, they have been hurt or look as if they have been in a struggle.(Dorking School Dictionary)
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The Cantos — by Ezra Pound is a long, incomplete poem in 120 sections, each of which is a canto . Most of it was written between 1915 and 1962, although much of the early work was abandoned and the early cantos, as finally published, date from 1922 onwards.… … Wikipedia
