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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

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