"chocolate soldier" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Military sense popularized by George Bernard Shaw's 1894 play Arms and the Man.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chocolate soldiers",
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "chocolate soldier (plural chocolate soldiers)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1932, Warwick Deeping, Old wine and new, A. A. Knopf, page 152:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1965, Joseph Rosner, The haters' handbook, Delacorte Press, page 195:",
          "text": "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.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Robert Moss, Fire Along the Sky: Being the Adventures of Captain Shane Hardacre in the New World, SUNY Press, page 51:",
          "text": "I thought he was a chocolate soldier which was probably unfair—everyone said he had done the “right thing” in the Canada campaign.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Someone who is unwilling to fight."
      ],
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          "unwilling",
          "unwilling"
        ],
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          "fight",
          "fight"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Digger slang",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Digger slang) Someone who is unwilling to fight."
      ]
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          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Nymphalid butterflies",
          "orig": "en:Nymphalid butterflies",
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      "derived": [
        {
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          "word": "choc"
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      "glosses": [
        "The butterfly Junonia iphita, the chocolate pansy."
      ],
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        [
          "butterfly",
          "butterfly"
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        [
          "chocolate pansy",
          "chocolate pansy"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Arms and the Man",
    "Chocolate Soldier",
    "George Bernard Shaw"
  ],
  "word": "chocolate soldier"
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    "en:Nymphalid butterflies"
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "choc"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Military sense popularized by George Bernard Shaw's 1894 play Arms and the Man.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chocolate soldiers",
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        "plural"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1932, Warwick Deeping, Old wine and new, A. A. Knopf, page 152:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1965, Joseph Rosner, The haters' handbook, Delacorte Press, page 195:",
          "text": "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.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Robert Moss, Fire Along the Sky: Being the Adventures of Captain Shane Hardacre in the New World, SUNY Press, page 51:",
          "text": "I thought he was a chocolate soldier which was probably unfair—everyone said he had done the “right thing” in the Canada campaign.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Someone who is unwilling to fight."
      ],
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          "fight",
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        ]
      ],
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        "(Digger slang) Someone who is unwilling to fight."
      ]
    },
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      "glosses": [
        "The butterfly Junonia iphita, the chocolate pansy."
      ],
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        [
          "chocolate pansy",
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      ]
    }
  ],
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  "word": "chocolate soldier"
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