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old soldier

noun

  1. a former soldier or veteran
  2. an experienced or practised person
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Was the infirm old soldier, perhaps, taking Obama to task for the scandals in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs?

One old soldier is on the path to a doctorate in mathematics and another is a trained underwater welder.

Lewis Millett, old soldier, died on Nov. 14, age 89: A free man, a brave man, an American patriot.

President Dwight Eisenhower was regarded as a worn-out old soldier when he turned over the presidency to JFK in 1961.

He was promptly taken to task by the old soldier who was acting as our guide through the castle.

Walter alone knew the ghastly circumstances, and it was he who had been working to save the old soldier from himself.

But firmness had its usual effect, and the stout old soldier saw signs of increasing conformity among his subjects of all ranks.

General Chass, an old soldier of the Empire, who had lived there for some years, was in command of the troops in the citadel.

Sitting very straight, Valmond rode steadily down towards the old soldier.

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old sodOld soldiers never die; they only fade away