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n. 1 (context colloquial British English) Scotland 2 (context colloquial US English) Canada
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North of the Border may refer to:
In film and television:
- North of the Border (film), a 1946 film by B. Reeves Eason
As a colloquialism:
- Scotland, in England and Wales
- Canada, in the United States
- United States, in Mexico
Usage examples of "north of the border".
Curiously, no one north of the border found cause to complain about illegal immigration.
In Dalgleish's opinion, it was precisely this sort of pandering and indulgence that was responsible for the party's poor showings north of the border - if you let a child have its way every time it whinges or whines about something, you end up with an indisciplined brat, don't you?
As Pete Kitchen had survived north of the border, so had he survived south of it.
I've told them to stay north of the border unless we have a lot of action because we don't want to tip the Iraqis that we've got people down-if they don't know it already.