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chocolate soldier

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chocolate soldier
n
Informal a person who mistakenly believes that he or she is very powerful, important, or impressive
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Three years, a couple of dozen matches, a brief chapter in the story of a great club - but enough to saddle the Sky Blues' chocolate soldiers with the reputation as the greatest fashion victims in football history.
Brown highs! by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
Pygmalion was turned into the musical My Fair Lady by Rogers and Hammerstein, while Arms and the Man was adapted by Oscar Straus into an operetta called The Chocolate Soldier.
JEST AND HEFT ; SHAW'S ARMS AND THE MAN by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
Our prosperity may be approaching a chasm - a global recession of a kind not known in our lifetime - but the chocolate soldiers of Charbonnel et Walker bravely advance.
The only thing we have to fear is not feeling fearful enough by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
 
 
 
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