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cannon fodder
noun
- soldiers, especially infantrymen, who run the greatest risk of being wounded or killed in warfare.
cannon fodder
noun
- men regarded as expendable because they are part of a huge army
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Origin of cannon fodder1
Example Sentences
Then, just like the Confederate slave conscripts, just like the Russian cannon fodder in Bakhmut, they’ll be discarded — forgotten, broken and left to rot in the very ruins they helped create.
The bad guys are cannon fodder, though I did like the way one mobster sadly sighs at a grenade before he explodes.
The illegal invasion has led to an estimated 100,000 Ukranian deaths and even more Russian deaths, as Putin treats his soldiers like cannon fodder.
Graham says his son and his comrades, who hailed from all over the world and had varying degrees of military experience, were "totally ill-equipped" and used as "cannon fodder".
With these assessments, it could be easy to dismiss the troops as "cannon fodder" and a sign of Russian President Vladimir Putin's desperation.
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