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Definition of wide brown land in English: wide brown landnoun Australian A name for Australia. the richness and complexity of life in the wide brown land Example sentencesExamples - I got out to the centre of this wide brown land from its biggest city and spent a lot of time staring out the car window at the bare South Australia.
- These powerful Australians hope to radically shift government policy on water resources and make a move at last towards drought-proofing this wide brown land.
- I have travelled far and wide in this wide brown land, and many of my travels have been sustained by the magic of the coffee bean.
- 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.
- After living in Australia for many years, I thought I was familiar with every hideous bitey thing this wide brown land had to offer.
- Ordinary Australians gathered in shopping centres across this wide brown land to watch the service on large screens.
- The regeneration of representative democracy in this wide brown land may have to come from independents representing the people directly.
- 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.
- They'd entered into an agreement to serve up a series of concerts around this here wide brown land.
Origin 1908: from the poem ‘My Country’ by Dorothea Mackellar (1885–1968). |