old country

old country
{n. phr.} Primarily Europe, but also any country other than the United States where one originally came from. * /Al's wife was born in Chicago but Al himself is from the old country, Ireland./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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  • old country — old homeland, place from which an immigrant originally comes; homeland, motherland …   English contemporary dictionary

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