Meaning of chocolate soldier | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Someone who is unwilling to fight.
2. The butterfly Junonia iphita, the chocolate pansy.

Examples

“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.”

“He described him as "a political corpse whose ghost has returned to haunt us," adding that he was "a chocolate soldier, ... a man who never faced an enemy nor successfully faced an issue."”

“I thought he was a chocolate soldier which was probably unfair—everyone said he had done the “right thing” in the Canada campaign.”

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