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sod this for a game of soldiers en · INTJ

(Ireland, UK) Expressing exasperation or impatience with a situation.
- A cold gust of wind fans your face, you shiver slightly, you have been standing still, "get moving," you say to yourself, only another hour to do, the rifle is heavy, brrrr, blow this for a game of soldiers, they have no consideration at all. 1952, Hashomer Hatzair, Forging the link: a handbook of Hashomer Hatzair, page 108:
- "All that grovelling. It's no wonder most people say, 'Sod this for a game of soldiers'. It's a very odd person who retains practising religion." 1996 December 8, Caroline Sutton, “My First One-in-a-Bath Romp, by Father Ted”, in Sunday Mirror:
- Near-synonyms: screw this, fuck this; see also Thesaurus:screw this
- In the middle of a very hot mixed-up fight one of our men remarked drily on his radio "What price this for a game of soldiers!" 1941, James Lansdale Hodson, Through the dark night: being some account of a war correspondent's journey, meetings and what was said to him in France, Britain, and Flanders during 1939-40, V. Gollancz Ltd., page 343

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