cannon fodder

Noun

Meaning

soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire

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cannon-fodder

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You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder. Eugene V. Debs

If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future. Helen Thomas

You won't be some valued member of a movement. You are cannon fodder for them. They will use you. If you are a boy, they will brainwash you, strap bombs to your body and blow you up. If you are a girl, they will enslave and abuse you. That is the sick and brutal reality of ISIL. David Cameron

It would have been better if we had fought in Italy and Austria which are really at war against us, instead of allowing them to use our unfortunate Slovenians, Croats and Moslems as bait and cannon fodder. Ratko Mladić

A third-party candidate is never treated equally. They look at you as a novelty, as cannon fodder. "This is entertaining," they think, "but we'll go back to the Democrats and Republicans, because only they can run our government." Which is baloney. Jesse Ventura

those who survive this policy of starvation become the cattle the United States needs to pick the crops in Michigan. These are the cattle the U.S. needs to be shipped as cannon fodder to Korea or to any other part of hell existing on this earth. Pedro Albizu Campos

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