fodder

fourrage

Nourriture donnée aux animaux d’élevage, comme le foin ou d’autres plantes.

En anglais simple : Food such as hay or other plants given to farm animals.

• The cattle need more fodder.
• We stored enough fodder for the winter.
• The farmer grows several fodder crops.

Comment l'utiliser : fodder for animals (The farmer grew fodder for his cattle.)

Synonymes : animal feed, feed

Expressions courantes : animal fodder, winter fodder, fodder crops

matériel de remplissage, matière bas de gamme

Matière jugée bon marché, de mauvaise qualité ou seulement utile à des fins peu importantes.

En anglais simple : Material considered cheap, poor, or useful only for some low purpose.

• The film is cheap fodder for late-night television.
• His private life became tabloid fodder.
• The channel filled its schedule with disposable entertainment fodder.

Comment l'utiliser : fodder for something (The private messages became cheap fodder for gossip magazines.)

Synonymes : filler, low-grade material

Expressions courantes : tabloid fodder, cheap fodder, fodder for something

chair à canon

Personnes jugées sans importance, qu’on peut utiliser, sacrifier ou remplacer sans se soucier d’elles.

En anglais simple : People treated as unimportant and easy to use, harm, or replace.

• The soldiers were treated as cannon fodder.
• Poor workers became fodder for the growing factories.
• He refused to send more young people as fodder for the war.

Comment l'utiliser : fodder for something (Young recruits became fodder for a pointless war.)

Synonymes : cannon fodder

Expressions courantes : cannon fodder, human fodder, fodder for something