wide brown land
noun Australian
A name for Australia: over 200 years since Europeans invaded the wide brown land, relations between white and black are still on a knife-edge...
- We live in the centre of this wide brown land, far away, yet roughly equidistant from, any beach in Australia.
- He is relishing this last tour around the wide brown land before gallivanting off overseas again.
- The bus shelter is a desolate place in the middle of nowhere and the three occupants surely represent three types of people so often found right across this wide brown land.
Origin
1908: from the poem ‘My Country’ by Dorothea Mackellar (1885–1968).
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