steak commando

English

Noun

steak commando (plural steak commandos)

  1. (Philippines) Someone advocating conflict and radical action, while themselves living in relative peace and luxury.
    • 2006, Journal of the Geological Society of the Philippines, volume 61, number 1, page 61:
      He might have sounded to some like a steak commando, urging compatriots to fight while he slugged his beer in California.
    • 2015, Peter Ackerman, Jack DuVall, A Force More Powerful, page 376:
      By the summer of 1983, people were calling Ninoy "a steak commando" who was having a good time in the States while his countrymen were suffering, recalled former Senator Francisco Rodrigo.
    • 2022 August 21, Larah Vinda Del Mundo, “How Marcos suppressed the truth behind Ninoy Aquino’s assassination”, in VERA Files‎:
      The response signed by the Filipino diplomat noticeably focused on poisoning the well, calling Manglapus a "discredited politician," a "steak commando" and a "political has-been."
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