Citations:land up over
English citations of land up over
Noun: "(informal) the United States, Canada, or another Northern Hemisphere country, from the perspective of Australia"
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- 2000, Ken Ewell, No Worries, Mate: A Manly Adventure in the Land Down Under, Writers Club Press (2000), →ISBN, page 7:
- Once the departure preparations for Australia were ironed out, I spent my last evening in the land up over at the San Francisco Brewing Company, located at 155 Columbus Avenue.
- 2002 December 5, Coco (quoting The Word Detective), “Re: Looking for writers”, in alt.writing[3] (Usenet):
- Here in Australia we "whinge" where Americans "whine." "Whinge" is a fabulous word and many Americans with whom I have had contact have latched onto it. My Macquarie dictionary doesn't note it as slang and its use is very widespread in the land up over (who said south was down, north was up anyway?).