tin soldier
Americannoun
noun
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a miniature toy soldier, usually made of lead
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a person who enjoys playing at being a soldier
Example Sentences
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These onstage mateys may not be the Rockettes, but who needs a toe-tapping tin soldier number when you can have a pirate duel with candy canes?
From New York Times • Dec. 25, 2014
This may be a small show, but unlike the poor tin soldier, it's pleasingly formed.
From The Guardian • Nov. 21, 2010
"I wanted to go to France because I was just a tin soldier," Mr Babcock said in an interview with the Canadian Press in July 2007.
From BBC • Feb. 19, 2010
The knight has been Galahad, Don Quixote and every tin soldier, in Robert Louis Stevenson's couplet, "With different uniforms and drills/ Among the bedclothes, through the hills."
From Time Magazine Archive
He looked rather bored as he put a tin soldier on a tiny horse.
From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke
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