This performance here proves that all the talk before the Ashes was not a phoney war.

Does anyone really believe that North Korea actually wants an end to the phoney war!

In that first quiet week of the 'phoney' war I had plenty to think about.

This phoney war is unlikely to last that long.

Small wonder that this war came to be known as the phoney war.

Many were, in fact, brought back during the "phoney war", and the government redoubled efforts to persuade them to let the children stay.

This was during the phoney war, before the fighting on land and air had begun.

To put it another way: so far, Britain has been fighting a phoney economic war.

During the phoney war he served in France in the intelligence corps.