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fodder

coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop give fodder (to domesticated animals) (= cannon fodder) soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire

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Simple sentences

The soldiers were regarded as cannon fodder.

Movie subtitles

Our children aren't cannon fodder for the rich anymore.
A hundred cartloads of fodder for your horses.
We can't ship horses without fodder.
Cheap fodder for the slaves on the plantations there.
And you, Scarecrow have the effrontery to ask for a brain you billowing bale of bovine fodder!
We're last-minute cannon fodder.
Or I'd say that this was a fusty, pinched, no-good parcel of pig fodder.
Maybe I'm 150 years out of style, but I'm not going to be fodder for any inhuman monster.
Make Indian tea from the leaves, and it makes a passable fodder for stock. Look around you, Mr Howie.
Mere fodder for the mass media.
The grass grows so thick that one has enough for winter fodder for a cow in just two days.
I'll have no woman of thirty;that is but straw and fodder!
Food, water, fodder?
During five years of war the illustrious Frederick had so exhausted the males of his kingdom that he had to employ recruiters who would commit any crime, including kidnapping to keep supplied those brilliant regiments of his with cannon fodder.
But the horse was voracious, and the Khmyrs had no fodder.
Here's your fodder.
Soldiers, don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you, regiment your lives, tell you what to think and feel, who drill you, treat you like cattle and use you as cannon fodder.
Once they start on the fodder nothing will get them out.
You will make excellent cannon fodder, Klink, for the Russian front.
I'll give you chicken fodder as much as you can eat, as long as you stay in Katthult.
I raise cattle, run a few horses, grow my own fodder.
That is but straw and fodder!
You tacky package of horse fodder.
Give him more fodder, his flanks are caving in.
Cannon fodder!
You craven, gutted factory fodder. Are you frightened of a half-grown girl?
You have a beautiful beast, is the fodder from here enough for him?
How things are, a master provides fodder for the beast, he does not provide it for the man who works the land for him.
This war will end. And by the time the new cannon fodder grows up, the next war will be ready to begin.
Are they going to turn us into fodder for that blob?
Oh, arrow fodder.
You may have been a good smuggler. but now you're Bantha fodder.

News and current affairs

PRAGUE - Weather conditions around the world this summer have provided ample fodder for the global warming debate.
With outside help, Darfur could increase the productivity of its livestock through improved breeds, veterinary care, collection of fodder, and other strategies.
Yet Syrian civilians are the cannon fodder.
After ploughing the land in preparation for winter wheat, however, the farmers slaughtered the cattle because they could not keep them fed throughout the winter, because no fodder was provided.
But will the 2010 World Cup bring African women more than just fodder for gossip?
Governments lose their legitimacy when they cannot guarantee their populations' most basic needs: safe drinking water, staple food crops, and fodder and water for the animal herds on which communities depend for their meager livelihoods.
The slowness with which the first stimulus has been rolled out, and the fact that it will take even more time for its full effects to be felt, provides more fodder for the chattering classes.
By falling into this trap, the US has provided President Vladimir Putin with endless fodder to score political points and solidify his domestic position.
In principle, there are only three ways to procure it: by withdrawing it from food or fodder production, from the production of natural materials - particularly wood - or from nature.
The workforce can be found to undertake the development projects in Russia's east, including clusters of high-yielding agricultural production for grain, fodder, meat, poultry, pork, and possibly beer.
Symbolic gestures are to be expected, as with the threatened government shutdown earlier this year, which merely created fodder for political advertising by both parties.
In this context, an important factor will be how the West treats its Muslims - as welcome citizens with equal rights and obligations, or as permanent outsiders and fodder for jihadist recruiters.
No doubt, conspiratorial minds will always find fodder for their obsessions.

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