Darby and Joan

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

[pl.] (BrE) a way of referring to an old couple who are happily married

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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

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Darby and JoanEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus Darby and JoanEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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Darby and Joan