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Darby and Joan noun- an inseparable couple, with connotations of possible homosexuality UK
Extending the conventional sense of “an archetypal elderly married couple”. - — Charles Allen, Plain Tales from the Raj, 26 October 1975
- a telephone UK, 1961
Rhyming slang, formed on the conventional archetype of an elderly married couple or inseparable companions. First noted by Julian Franklyn, A Dictionary of Rhyming Slang, 1961, but thought to date from the end of C19. - a loan AUSTRALIA
Rhyming slang. - — John Ayto, The Oxford Dictionary of Rhyming Slang, 2002
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