old sod

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Mr Williams said: "I'm just a stubborn old sod and I'm not going to give in. I would appreciate it if anybody said to me 'you were right and we were wrong'."

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2025

In 2006, he purchased 1,800 acres of property to develop as a luxury golf resort in Scotland, the old sod, his mother’s birthplace.

From Washington Post • Aug. 15, 2019

First, I scraped off the old sod, most of it the color of urine, in hopes of installing a new front yard the gophers could be proud of.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2018

Dominic Fifield: The constant chopping and changing of kick-off times, which admittedly makes me sound like a grumpy old sod.

From The Guardian • May 22, 2017

I had been looking for some one from the old sod for several days, but I was in good hopes that it would be my poor Uncle.

From The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by Still, William