the old country

the old country

One's or one's ancestors' native country; the country of one's origin, especially in Europe. Ma keeps talking about going back to the old country. Let's save up and take her next summer.
See also: country, old
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • deport (someone) from (some place) to (some place)
  • deport (someone) to (some place)
  • import
  • import (something) from (some place)
  • war against
  • war against (someone or something)
  • war on (someone or something)
  • war with
  • war with (someone or something)
  • import (something) from (some place) into (some place)
References in classic literature
'Do you think of soon returning to the old country?' says I.
'Think of soon returning to the old country, sir!' repeats the Doctor.
Micawber, 'is, that in some branches of our family we may live again in the old country. Do not frown, Micawber!
Whatever the attitude of America as a nation may be to these matters, the American people don't want to see the old country in trouble.
My fancy played with the various forms of fraud and violence, and I agreed with him sympathetically when he remarked that the authorities in the old country were so damned technical.
I picked up the gun he had dropped; a queer piece from the old country, short and heavy, with a stag's head on the cock.
* If the curious traveller will turn south from Glen Ellen, he will find himself on a boulevard that is identical with the old country road seven centuries ago.
The young man found, on landing in the old country, a welcome and a surrounding in full harmony with all his dreams throughout his wanderings and solitude, and the promise of a fresh and adventurous life.
Red John and Axel did not send their pay-days home to the old country. Instead, and along with the rest, they were scattered on board sailing ships bound for the four quarters of the globe, where they had been placed by the boarding-house masters, and where they were working out advance money which they had neither seen nor spent.
Summary: Tsitsipas says he is proud to be a writing a new chapter in the old country's history
Reconstructing the Old Country: American Jewry in the Post-Holocaust Decades.
Sloot Peril, a modest accountant who is "only as superstitious as required by law," is an unlikely hero in the humorous fantasy Peril in the Old Country. With a lyrical flair that evokes P.
The Old Country Buffet in Arlington Heights closed in June 2016 after surviving an initial spate of nationwide closures months earlier as part of the parent company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing and restructuring.
Synopsis: According to the good folk of the Old Country, you have got to have rules because they are all that's holding the dismal tide at bay.
He has lived all his life very carefully in Little Town, which borders the Old Country; he follows the rules and keeps safe.