Old Dart

Significado (Inglês)

1. Britain, England, London, or Ireland; the Old Country.
2. (colloquial) Dartmouth Royal Navy College.

Sinônimos

Brummie

England

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UK

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United Kingdom

Bridgetown

Stratford

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Blighty

St. George’s

Neath

Cramlington

Morpeth

Old Blighty

Etimologia (Inglês)

Possibly from the river Dart in Devonshire which enters the sea at Dartmouth, location of a Royal Navy College. Royal Navy officers who were returning to England at the end of a foreign tour of duty referred to going back to the "Old Dart" for further training.
Alternatively a variation of "old dirt" (compare old sod).