old sod
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
See, here is a pot with its drainage, and a very little bit of old sod over this.
From The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. by Shaw, Ellen Eddy
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