old stamping ground
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Soon, she was trying to figure out if she could order Korean beef ribs for dinner, a break from all the Haitian food she had been eating in her old stamping ground.
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2022
In the present, Fett and Shand try to consolidate their control of the criminal element in Jabba the Hutt’s old stamping ground.
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2021
Thirty years after his move to Wapping killed off Fleet Street’s connection with the newspaper business, Rupert Murdoch is to marry Jerry Hall at St Bride’s church on his old stamping ground.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 12, 2016
Mourinho's not the only man who could be returning to his old stamping ground.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 17, 2013
Sort of look over the old stamping ground generally.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
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