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Catchword for “land of fruit and nuts”

Catchword: land of fruit and nuts

Filed Under: California, English

Part of Speech: n.

The part of speech reflects that used in the full entry, and not necessarily the part of speech as it is used in the quotation below.

Quotation: In the presidential race, I knew we’d have to confront a different stereotype: the bias many Northeeasterns held against Californians—the one that says since California is a land of fruit and nuts, it’s a great place if you’re an orange.

Author:
Ronald Reagan

Article, Document, Publication, Web Site:
An American Life

Date of Publication:
Nov. 15, 1990

Page Number:
201

Originally published in:

Original Date Published:
Oct. 1, 1999

This cite belongs to a full entry for land of fruit and nuts.

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