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Dehghanpour20 Posted 12 years ago
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idiom or proverb

Could someone help me in translating this sentence please ?
What does this sentence really mean?
"Soldiers are simply the currency on which empires are bought and sold ."
  

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dehghanpour20Soldiers are simply the currency on which empires are bought and sold.
It's neither an idiom nor a proverb.

If you know what soldier, currency, empire, buy, and sell mean, you should be able to come up with some idea of the meaning. The idea is that the size of an empire is increased through war. The statement is metaphori

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