chocolate soldier

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone who is unwilling to fight.
    — To the maids across the way he was Julia's beau, and if not quite Beau Geste, a gent and well dressed. Obviously he was a chocolate soldier, a bouquet boy.
  2. The butterfly Junonia iphita, the chocolate pansy.

词形变化

chocolate soldiers plural

词源

Military sense popularized by George Bernard Shaw's 1894 play Arms and the Man.
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