The Land of Opportunity

The Land of Opportunity

1. The United States of America, from the notion that the country provides the opportunity for success to anyone from any background. Sometimes spelled in lower case. In the early 1940s, my grandparents, fleeing persecution in Europe, took everything they owned and sailed on a boat to the Land of Opportunity. I am convinced that this is still the land of opportunity, that any man or woman with a dream and the desire to work hard can achieve anything.
2. The official state nickname of Arkansas from 1947 to 1995 (replaced by "The Natural State"). My family's been living in The Land of Opportunity for nearly three generations, but we originally hail from Pennsylvania.
See also: land, of, opportunity
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • kicken
  • kickin’
  • joy box
  • joybox
  • wall-eyed
  • Lady Luck
  • nitery
  • killer-diller
  • diller
  • dillers
References in periodicals archive
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America because it is the land of opportunity and I think it would be better for the children.
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And, there's still billions of people around the world who want to come here, and they want to come here because they know that this is--for all our problems--still the land of opportunity."
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Aaron Brickman, director of Invest in America, the US Government body set up to manage foreign investment promotion in the country, said: "It's really the land of opportunity where dreams are made - but it doesn't work for everybody.
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