break faith with (someone or something)

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break faith with (someone or something)

To fail to act as one has promised. After promising so much, the candidate will be in danger of breaking faith with the many groups she courted on the campaign trail.

break/keep ˈfaith with somebody

break/keep a promise that you have made to somebody; stop/continue being loyal to somebody: The government claims they have kept faith with the people by reducing the crime rate.

See also: break, faith, keep, somebody

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"When people ask me why I keep going to the battlefields, I just say a line from Major John McCrae's famous poem, In Flanders Fields, and that's that 'If ye break faith with us who die, We shall not sleep.'.

'If I don't come back, keep smiling for there's a silver lining to every cloud' 'If I don't come back, keep smiling for there's a silver lining to every cloud'

Might we not wonder exactly what WW1 soldier poet John McCrae meant by: 'If ye break faith with us who die'?

Lessons of war

Written in the voice of those who fell at Ypres, it declares, "Take up our quarrel with the foe / To you from failing hands we throw the torch / If ye break faith with us who die, we shall not sleep." This reasoning has been used to sustain bloodshed in many nations and contexts.

Is Afghanistan the new Flanders Field?

Short days ago/ We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie/ In Flanders fields./ Take up our quarrel with the foe:/ To you from failing hands we throw/ The torch; be yours to hold it high./ If ye break faith with us who die/ We shall not sleep, though poppies grow/ In Flanders fields.

THE BLOOD RED SYMBOL OF SACRIFICE

Short days ago/ We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow/ Loved, and were loved, and now we lie/ In Flanders' Fields/ Take up our quarrel with the foe/ To you from failing hands we throw/ The torch/ Be yours to hold it high/ If ye break faith with us who die/ We shall not sleep, though poppies grow/ In Flanders' Fields."

Britons remember war veterans

If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

Gangsters in charge betray sacrifice of our Afghan fallen; OPINION

To you from falling hands we throw/The torch; be yours to hold it high/If ye break faith with us who die/We shall not sleep, though poppies grow/In Flanders fields.

Poppies

Take up our quarrel with the foe To you, from failing hands, we throw The torch: be yours to hold it high If ye break faith with us who die, We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields

Poppies grow... in Flanders fields Poppies grow... in Flanders fields; Nostalgia POEM BECAME CATALYST FOR SYMBOL OF REMEMBRANCE