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

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

Can the stubborn old sod really be expected to reinvent himself?

From The Guardian • Apr. 10, 2017

Now if I had only one wheel on the old sod you might worry, but you wouldn’t worry for long.

From The Meadow-Brook Girls Across Country The Young Pathfinders on a Summer Hike by Aldridge, Janet