Usually means: Resilience and solidarity in adversity.
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  1. Dunkirk spirit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. Dunkirk spirit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. Dunkirk spirit: Wiktionary
  4. dunkirk spirit: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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▸ noun:  (UK, idiomatic) The spirit of the British public pulling together to overcome times of adversity.

Similar:
Dutch courage, derring-do, drop, Dunkirker, dink, gedunk, dandy, duffel, dunamis, dinkum, more...

Opposite:
defeatism, despair, pessimism

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Similar:
Dutch courage, derring-do, drop, Dunkirker, dink, gedunk, dandy, duffel, dunamis, dinkum, more...

Opposite:
defeatism, despair, pessimism



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