bow and arrow
nounUK /ˈbəʊ ən(d)ˈæɹəʊ/
1
A weapon consisting of a bow and a supply of arrows, often kept in a quiver.
- His bow and arrow never leaves him.
- Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845: