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big pond
noun- the Atlantic Ocean US, 1833
An ironic understatement of the distance between the UK and the US; “great pond”, an earlier variation, is recorded from 1641. - during the Vietnam war, the Pacific Ocean US
Playing on the use of the term since the 1830s to refer to the Atlantic Ocean. - — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, p. 21, 1991
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