单词 | saturday soldier |
释义 | > as lemmasSaturday soldier Saturday soldier n. colloquial (somewhat depreciative) = Saturday night soldier n. at Saturday night n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1890 Globe 11 Aug. 3/2 A slight selection of the epithets which he showered on the citizen defender: ‘catshooter’, Saturday soldier. 1947 Times 28 Jan. 5/7 Thus the often derided ‘Saturday soldiers’ of the careless days of peace did their valiant part in war again. 2005 Edmonton Sun (Nexis) 8 Nov. ns2 The Loyal Edmonton Regiment was made up of ‘Saturday Soldiers’ for nearly two decades. < as lemmas |
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