tin soldier

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tin soldier (plural tin soldiers)

  1. A toy soldier made out of tin.
  2. (derogatory) One who only plays at being a soldier.
    • 1963, William Gates Le Duc, Recollections of a Civil War Quartermaster, page 98:
      By officers and men he was regarded as a tin soldier; by the church people generally, because of Parson Alvord's newspaper articles, he was thought to be a great hero.
Nazi Tin soldiers

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