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dead soldier
noun
- an empty beer, liquor, or wine bottle or empty beer can.
dead soldier
noun
- informal.an empty beer or spirit bottle
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of dead soldier1
Idioms and Phrases
Also, dead man . An empty liquor, wine, or beer bottle, as in Their trash barrel's full of dead soldiers; they must drink a lot , or That dead man sticking out of your pocket alerted the officer to the fact that you'd been drinking. Dead man has been slang for “empty bottle†since the late 1600s but has been largely replaced by dead soldier , dating from the late 1800s.Example Sentences
“We will never find the last dead soldier. And today there is a new war. So this lesson wasn’t enough for you?â€
In Gaza, the militants filmed themselves pulling a dead soldier’s body from a car.
Their son-in-law was friends with Andrii Kozyr, and though they shared a last name, he wasn’t related to the dead soldier.
"Now that Kelly is coming forward to bash Trump over his views of vets, remember when he attacked Rep Frederica Wilson for criticizing Trump's handling of a dead soldier's widow? Kelly called her 'all hat & no cattle,' & misrepresented comments she made. What changed?" questioned The Messenger's Marc Caputo.
Jibo is a bit of a dead soldier whose commanding officers went out of business.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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