英和和英

名詞

dead soldier (plural dead soldiers)

1. (idiomatic, slang) An empty container, usually a bottle or can which contained an alcoholic beverage.

   Hypernym: empty

   Hyponyms: dead man, dead marine

   • 1968, William Handley, Flesh and Blood, page 15:

     Another Dead Soldier! (Lays the bottle gently on its side.)

   • 1999, Elliott Smith, “Baby Britain”, in XO:

     We knocked another couple back / The dead soldiers lined up on the table

   • 2000, Andrei Codrescu, Laura Rosenthal, Thus Spake the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader 1988-1998, page 344:

     When my mother drinks beer, she peeks in the bottle to make sure it's a dead soldier.

   • 2002, Val Davis, Thread of the Spider, page 117:

     By the time the pint was a dead soldier, Decker had the man's life story.

参考

• dead marine