tin soldier

English

Noun

tin soldier (plural tin soldiers)

1. A toy soldier made out of tin.
2. (derogatory) One who only plays at being a soldier.
   • 1963, William Gates Le Duc, Recollections of a Civil War Quartermaster, page 98:

     By officers and men he was regarded as a tin soldier; by the church people generally, because of Parson Alvord's newspaper articles, he was thought to be a great hero.

Nazi Tin soldiers

Translations

toy soldier

• Bulgarian: оловен войник m (oloven vojnik)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 錫兵／锡兵 (xī bīng)

• Danish: tinsoldat c
• Estonian: tinasõdur
• Finnish: tinasotilas (fi), tinasotamies (fi)
• French: soldat de plomb (fr) m
• German: Zinnsoldat (de) m
• Hungarian: ólomkatona (hu)
• Icelandic: tindáti m
• Japanese: スズの兵隊 (suzu no heitai), ブリキの兵隊 (buriki no heitai)
• Macedonian: оловен војник m (oloven vojnik)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tinnsoldat m

  Nynorsk: tinnsoldat m

• Polish: żołnierzyk (pl) m
• Portuguese: soldadinho de chumbo m
• Russian: оловя́нный солда́тик m (olovjánnyj soldátik)
• Serbo-Croatian: oловни војник m, olovni vojnik m
• Swedish: tennsoldat (sv)
• Turkish: kurşun asker (tr)