n.
1.a crisis in which a desperate effort is the only alternative to defeat
2.a city in northern France on the North Sea where in World War II (1940) 330,000 Allied troops had to be evacuated from the beaches at Dunkirk in a desperate retreat under enemy fire
Idiom of the Day
run around with (someone)
to be friends and do things with someone or with a group
My cousin's son is running around with a bad group of people.