| 单词 | chocolate-cream soldier |
| 释义 | > as lemmaschocolate-cream soldier chocolate-cream soldier n. colloquial depreciative (originally) a soldier who is unwilling to fight; (later chiefly) one who has little experience of combat, or whose duties are mainly ceremonial; cf. chocolate soldier n. 1.Originally with reference to the character Captain Bluntschli, in George Bernard Shaw's play Arms and the Man (first performed on 21st April 1894 and first published in 1898; cf. quot. 1898), who carries chocolate instead of ammunition into battle and is given chocolate creams by the heroine. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [noun] > yielding to the enemy > one who yields in combat or deserts battlefield recreantc1425 skedaddler1864 chocolate-cream soldier1894 chocolate soldier1895 non-hero1924 society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > type of soldier generally > [noun] > malingerer or shirker malingerer1785 skulker1785 king's bargain1867 carpet soldier1869 chocolate-cream soldier1894 chocolate soldier1895 snow-bird1905 1894 Man of World 25 Apr. 6/1 Yorke Stephens..represents [in the play Arms and the Man] ‘the chocolate cream soldier’, who has no stomach for fighting. 1897 Scribner's Mag. Jan. 33/1 Do you agree, Mr. Clay..or do you prefer the chocolate-cream soldiers, in red coats and gold lace? 1898 G. B. Shaw Arms & Man i. in Plays Pleasant & Unpleasant 142 You are a very poor soldier—a chocolate cream soldier. 1920 G. B. Rodney Jim Lofton xvi. 193 There's one of them chocolate-cream soldiers comin' now... What 's that he's sayin'? 2002 T. Ali Clash of Fundamentalisms (2003) xviii. 234 An effete and vainglorious figure, easily swayed by flattery, Shaukat was a chocolate-cream soldier. < as lemmas |
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