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chocolate soldier
noun
- a nonfighting soldier; a serviceman not assigned to combat duty.
chocolate soldier
noun
- informal.a person who mistakenly believes that he or she is very powerful, important, or impressive
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Word 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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