Last arrow female shot in tale of wartime romance (1,8,2,4)
I believe the answer is:
a farewell to arms
'tale of wartime romance' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether this works.
'last arrow female shot' is the wordplay.
'shot' indicates anagramming the letters.
'last'+'arrow'+'female'='lastarrowfemale'
'lastarrowfemale' with letters rearranged gives 'A FAREWELL TO ARMS'.
'in' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for a farewell to arms that I've seen before include "comment on the Venus de Milo?" , "What Venus de Milo might have said" , "work by earnest-sounding individual" , "what one handing in weapon might say" , "Bookshop may sell this" .)