old soldier
noun
A male ex-soldier.More than 400 people had packed into the 14 th-century church, including old soldiers from the Royal Marines, Coldstream Guards and other regiments....
- Most nights middle-aged revolutionaries may be found sitting around grumbling about the morals of today's young ‘hoodies’ like so many old soldiers at a British Legion.
- I'm an old soldier, a paratrooper, this is my third war, including Yom Kippur and Beirut in 1982.
Phrases
come (or play) the old soldier
- new woman
- New World
- New Worlder
- new world order
- new year
- New Year's
- New Year's Day
- New Year's Eve
- New Year's gift
- New Year's Honors
- New Year's Honours
- New Year's resolution
- Newyorican
- New York
- New Yorker
- New Yorkerish
- New Yorkerism
- New Yorkese
- New York fern
- New Yorkish
- New York minute
- New York shield fern
- New Yorky
- New York-y
- newzak