cherry-boy
cherry-boy
1. slang A male virgin. A: "I can't believe he's still a cherry-boy!" B: "He says he's waiting for marriage."
2. slang An inexperienced male soldier. I was still a cherry-boy when I was first sent into armed combat. I came back from that skirmish a lot older than when I went in.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- gooseberry
- green as a gooseberry
- be (as) green as a gooseberry
- joog
- if (one) is a day
- if he is a day
- if he's, she's, etc. a day
- be going great guns
- French leave
- if one’s a day