An idiom is a collection of words which means more than the sum of the meanings of each of the phrases' individual words. Verse Dt02-16c discussing the death of the men of war states So it came to pass, when all the men of war had completed dying from the nation, Rashi explains: The phrase men of war is an idiom meaning men of military conscription age, draftable men We can compactly combine the Rashi comment with the Biblical text by translating as follows: So it came to pass, when all the draftable men had completed dying from the nation,

In my article Peshat and Derash found on the world wide web at http://www.Rashiyomi.com/rashi.pdf I advocate enriching the Rashi explanation using a technique of parallel nifty translations in modern English. Today's examples show this.

Advanced Rashi: In rule #1, reference we found that Dt02-16 referenced Nu14-29 which stated that all 20+ year olds who accepted the slander of the spies would die. Verse Nu01-20 then explains that 20 is the age of military conscription. These references motivate translating the idiom, men of war as draftable men.