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
draw (someone) out or draw out (someone)
to make a person talk or tell something
The girl was very quiet but we were able to draw her out and she began talking.