tin soldier

English

Noun

tin soldier (plural tin soldiers)

A toy soldier made out of tin.
(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

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