fodder
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7.2
- noun
- /ˈfɑːdər/
- Offensive
:
carne de cañón
- Most of the people on the planet are merely cannon fodder in this war.
- cannon fodder
So we were fodder to the cannon.
- So we were fodder to the cannon.
- So the friendlies main export is human cannon fodder.
- They have no background to be anything other than cannon fodder.
- You're voting fodder to get them into office.
Examples
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He's cannon fodder for the Army in Vietnam!
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We're not cannon fodder for your wars!
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So we were fodder to the cannon.
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Poor kids are cannon fodder.
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But you're only fodder... for a battle none of you can win.
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During the Vietnam War, the allegation that blacks and the poor were serving as cannon fodder was raised for the first time.
Academic text (1996) -
In reality, it becomes the haves vs. have-nots, and the individual is fodder on the battleground of their intentions.
Blog text (3) -
Skilled craft workers viewed the immigrants as fodder for industrialists, while factory owners saw them as shiftless and unprofitable.
Academic text (2005) -
Soldiers, don't give yourselves to brutes... men who despise you, enslave you, who regiment your lives... tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel... who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder!
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The troops were often seen as nothing more than fodder for the war machine, sent to battle without proper support.
Synonyms
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8.5
Soldiers in war who are expected to die and treated with little care
People or ideas others use as unimportant material
Compounds
How Tough
Surface Forms
Etymology
Fodder originally meant animal 'food', the same root as food and feed. Calling people fodder compares them to 'food' for war or danger, meaning they are used up and not cared for.