Usually means: Elderly couple contentedly growing old.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. Darby and Joan: Merriam-Webster
  2. Darby and Joan: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Darby and Joan: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Darby and Joan: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Darby and Joan: Wiktionary
  6. Darby and Joan: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Darby and Joan: Dictionary.com
  8. Darby and Joan: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Darby and Joan: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  10. Darby and Joan: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. Darby and Joan: World Wide Words
  12. darby and joan: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  13. Darby and Joan: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Darby and Joan: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. darby and joan, darby and joan: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Darby and Joan)

▸ noun:  A proverbial married couple content to share a quiet life of mutual devotion.

Similar:
married couple, man and wife, maritality, Romeo and Juliet couple, marriage bed, digamy, coupledom, deaness, ever-loving, newlyweds, more...

Opposite:
young couple, newlyweds, newly married, young love

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Similar:
married couple, man and wife, maritality, Romeo and Juliet couple, marriage bed, digamy, coupledom, deaness, ever-loving, newlyweds, more...

Opposite:
young couple, newlyweds, newly married, young love



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