Chocolate Soldier is an expression referring to a good-looking but useless warrior, popularised by George Bernard Shaw's 1894 play Arms and the Man. The term originates as a derogatory label for a soldier who will not fight but looks good in a uniform, shortened from 'Chocolate Cream soldier'.
It can refer to:
Arts and entertainment The Chocolate Soldier, a 1908 operetta by Oscar Straus, based on the play Arms and the Man The Chocolate Soldier (film), a 1941 film version of the operetta, starring Nelson Eddy A member of the army of Chocolate Soldiers in The Wonder City of Oz (1940)
Flora and fauna A common name of Kalanchoe tomentosa, a succulent plant A brown-flowered cultivar of Aquilegia viridiflora, the green columbine Two butterflies: Junonia iphita Junonia hedonia
Other uses A chocolate liqueur-based cocktail – see List of cocktails Chocolate Soldier (drink), a chocolate-flavored soft drink A derogatory term for a member of the Australian Army Reserve Chocolate Soldier (Parliament), a Parliamentary assistant for an Opposition front-bench spokesman in the British House of Commons in the early 1970s, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust The Chocolate Soldier, a missionary recruitment pamphlet written by Charles Studd in 1912
See also Hot Chocolate Soldiers, a 1934 Walt Disney cartoon
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