Dad's Army
/ˌdædz ˈɑːmi/
/ˌdædz ˈɑːrmi/
- a popular BBC television comedy series (1968-77) about an inefficient group of soldiers in the Home Guard whose job is to defend Warmington-on-Sea, an imaginary village on the south coast of England, during the Second World War. The phrase 'dad's army' is now sometimes used in British English to refer to any group of old soldiers.
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