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English citations of land up over

Noun: "(informal) the United States, Canada, or another Northern Hemisphere country, from the perspective of Australia"

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  • 2000, Ken Ewell, No Worries, Mate: A Manly Adventure in the Land Down Under, Writers Club Press (2000), →ISBN, page 7:
    Once the departure preparations for Australia were ironed out, I spent my last evening in the land up over at the San Francisco Brewing Company, located at 155 Columbus Avenue.
  • 2000 September 23, Dale Butcher, “Re: K6-2+/500 benefits over K6-3??”, in alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.fic (Usenet):
    If the K6-3+ 450 has surfaced in Australia, then come on Australia, there is lots of money here in the land up over.
  • 2001 April 26, Android Cat, “Re: Religion outlawed in Australia”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):
    In any event, it doesn't affect me because I come from the land up over eh! (Apologies to our Finnish and other northern-type friends. You come from the land *way* up over!)
  • 2002 December 5, Coco (quoting The Word Detective), “Re: Looking for writers”, in alt.writing (Usenet):
    Here in Australia we "whinge" where Americans "whine." "Whinge" is a fabulous word and many Americans with whom I have had contact have latched onto it. My Macquarie dictionary doesn't note it as slang and its use is very widespread in the land up over (who said south was down, north was up anyway?).