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chocolate soldier

noun

  1. a nonfighting soldier; a serviceman not assigned to combat duty.


chocolate soldier

noun

  1. informal.
    a person who mistakenly believes that he or she is very powerful, important, or impressive
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of chocolate soldier1

First recorded in 1895–1900
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The girls saw a bench in front of the Chocolate Soldier Shop.

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On the box was a picture of a chocolate soldier.

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It was a wrapper from the Chocolate Soldier Shop.

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Around that time, audiences could also catch Oscar Straus’s “The Chocolate Soldier†and Victor Herbert’s “Naughty Marietta†on TV.

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A “chocolate soldier†was a strutting man with an overweening belief in his own fabulous importance.

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