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But rich boys who’ve been to the wars, you know?

Several of Jeremy's ancestors had been to the wars, among them his great-great-grandfather Silas Jeremy, who had fought under Wolfe at the capture of Quebec, and probably under Monckton in some earlier campaign.

We have been to the wars, but not to fight; we left that to the Busné. 

Newspapers are practically designed to self-destruct after a single reading – if you've ever picked up a daily paper in a cafe around suppertime after it's been handled by a day's worth of patrons, you know that this is a *personal* tech, and that after a pass-along or two, it starts to look like it's been to the wars.

Kate and Margaret were wounded as if they'd been to the wars, Hilda too and Olga owe her very aggravating scars.