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- noun UK, idiomatic The spirit of the
British public pulling together toovercome times ofadversity .
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The phrase came into use following the evacuation of allied troops across the English Channel by flotillas of pleasure boats, working barges and other civilian craft at the Battle of Dunkirk in 1940.
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