any old married couple much devoted to each other
Origin of Darby and Joan
from an 18th-c. songDarby and Joan
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Darby and Joan
noun
An elderly married couple who live a placid, harmonious life together and are seldom seen apart.
Origin of Darby and Joan
Probably after Darby and Joan , a couple in an 18th-century English balladTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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