Spanish term
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Como carne de cañón.....
Translator colleagues from Spain, feel free to send me your suggestions as well. This is a translation of a Peruvian security guard interview. He used to work in the middle east.
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Me estaban tratando en ese país del medio oriente como Carne de cañón. Me tocaba trabajar en sitios peligrosos.
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United Kingdom
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Native in: English
Works in: Spanish to English, German to English
as cannon fodder
I was being treated as cannon fodder in that middle-eastern country; It was my lot to work in dangerous places.
cannon fodder
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noun
soldiers regarded merely as material to be expended in war.
"they ended up serving as cannon fodder in Vietnam"
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Spanish
noun
1. carne de cañón
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United Kingdom
Freelance Medical Translator, MA (Hons)
Native in: English (Variants: British, Scottish)
Works in: French to English, Spanish to English, English
as canon fodder
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Jennifer Levey
: canNon fodder
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I know! Sorry! Will try harder :)
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Laudable Lady Linguist
Native in: English
Works in: Spanish to English, French to English, English to Spanish, and 3 more.
as nothing more than cannon fodder
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Note added at 33 mins (2022-01-24 22:01:30 GMT)
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"carne" in the source text, reflecting the "FLESH and bone" aspect of the whole idea.
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Reference comments
Jamaica
Translating the Ideas Behind the Words
Native in: English (Variant: British)
Works in: Spanish to English, English to Spanish, French to English, and 2 more.
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carne de cañón loc nom f (soldados prescindibles) cannon fodder n
Los soldados del frente eran carne de cañón.
The soldiers in front were cannon fodder.
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carne de cañón loc nom f coloquial (plebe, chusma) rabble, riffraff n
****Previous glossary entry with 24 agrees "cannon fodder".
https://www.proz.com/kudoz/spanish-to-english/linguistics/83...
1891 *Cannon-fodder [in N.E.D.]. 1898 G. B. Shaw Our Theatres in Nineties (1932) III. 287 Peter [the Great], regarding children as future cannon-fodder, was as terribly severe on infanticide as he was infinitely indulgent to illegitimacy. 1950 Partridge Here, There & Everywhere 65 Cannon-fodder was never very popular with British troops.
George Bernard Shaw -- A Socialist Playwright - IndianFolkhttps://www.indianfolk.com › george-bernard-shaw-soc...
23 May 2019 — George Bernard Shaw — A Socialist Playwright ... the midst of conflict, have no business offering themselves for sacrifice as cannon fodder.
George Bernard Shaw: Joyriding on the Front | Century Irelandhttps://www.rte.ie › centuryireland › index.php › articles
George Bernard Shaw: Joyriding on the Front | The Century Ireland project is an ... the combing out of civilians as the need for more cannon fodder made the ...
CANNONS QUOTES [PAGE - 6] https://www.azquotes.com › quotes › topics › cannons
You are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism. Jane Fonda · Imperialism, Used, Fodder ... George Bernard Shaw · Feet, Goes On, Revolution. 6 Copy.
Personally, I would have been more inclined to go with "rabble" or "riffraff".
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“The appalling, slaughterous British offensives that just stopped short of getting there; the bombarded coast towns about which our authorities lied so heroically; the holocausts of British youth sacrificed in holding the ground for French offensives that never came off; the air raided cities and torpedoed ships; the Red Cross vans with their loads of mutilated men; the combing out of civilians as the need for more ***cannon fodder*** made the medical examinations for fitness less and less fastidious and the tribunals more and more inflexible:
What is another word for cannon fodder?
synonyms for cannon-fodder
food for powder, fresh fish, militiaman, trooper and fodder.
What is cannon fodder in slang?
Definition of cannon fodder
1 : soldiers regarded or treated as expendable in battle. 2 : an expendable or exploitable person, group, or thing celebrities who have become cannon fodder for the tabloids.
https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/another-word-for/cannon_fo...
What is another word for cannon fodder?
Expendable soldiers
food for powder/forlorn hope/fresh fish/militiaman/trooper
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