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summer soldier

Noun

Meaning

summer soldier (plural summer soldiers)

A person who fights for a cause only when to do so is easy and costs little.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily. Thomas Paine

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