old sod

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Mr Williams said: "I'm just a stubborn old sod and I'm not going to give in. I would appreciate it if anybody said to me 'you were right and we were wrong'."

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2025

In 2006, he purchased 1,800 acres of property to develop as a luxury golf resort in Scotland, the old sod, his mother’s birthplace.

From Washington Post • Aug. 15, 2019

Plans are still in the works to move the old sod house from Oregon Trail Park to the museum.

From Washington Times • Jun. 17, 2018

First, I scraped off the old sod, most of it the color of urine, in hopes of installing a new front yard the gophers could be proud of.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2018

Meanwhile he promised to "fit the leddy with the tastiest garden off the old sod!"

From The Garden, You, and I by Wright, Mabel Osgood