SamuelRSmith on 28 October 2012
| Adinnieken said: The only other people were to deal the British any significant blows were the two other superpowers of the time, the French and Spanish, and then the Germans in WWII at Dunkirk. The odd thing is the British consider Dunkirk a highlight of WWII. Nothing more uplifting than retreating with 50,000 soldiers either captured or killed. |
I was never taught to think of Dunkirk as a "highlight", just a major event in the WWII timespan. Typically, we hear of "from Dunkirk to D-Day" which essentially means the turning of the tides.
Although, there is the phrase "Dunkirk sprit", which simply means optimistic in times of great woe.
