English
Noun
tin soldier (plural tin soldiers)
- A toy soldier made out of tin.
- (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.
Translations
toy soldier
- Bulgarian: оловен войник m (oloven vojnik)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 錫兵 / 锡兵 (xī bīng)
- Danish: tinsoldat c
- Estonian: tinasõdur
- Finnish: tinasotilas (fi), tinasotamies (fi)
- French: soldat de plomb (fr) m
- German: Zinnsoldat (de) m
- Hungarian: ólomkatona (hu)
- Icelandic: tindáti m
- Japanese: スズの兵隊 (suzu no heitai), ブリキの兵隊 (buriki no heitai)
- Macedonian: оловен војник m (oloven vojnik)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: tinnsoldat m
- Nynorsk: tinnsoldat m
- Polish: żołnierzyk (pl) m
- Portuguese: soldadinho de chumbo m
- Russian: оловя́нный солда́тик m (olovjánnyj soldátik)
- Serbo-Croatian: oловни војник m, olovni vojnik m
- Swedish: tennsoldat (sv)
- Turkish: kurşun asker (tr)
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