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Land of Nod (The)

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To go to the land of Nod is to go to bed. There are many similar puns, and more in French than in English. Of course, the reference is to Gen. iv. 16, “Cain went … and dwelt in the land of Nod;” but where the land of Nod is or was nobody knows. In fact, “Nod” means a vagrant or vagabond, and when Cain was driven out he lived “a vagrant life,” with no fixed abode, till he built his “city.” (See Needham.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Lancers (The)
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Land-damn
Land-loupers
Land-lubber
Land of Beulah (Isa. lxii. 4)
Land of Bondage
Land of Cakes
Land of Myrrh
Land of Nod (The)
Land of Promise
Land of Shadows (Gone to the)
Land of Stars and Stripes (The)
Land othe Leal (The)
Landau
Landeyda
Landière (French, 3 syl.)
Landscape (A)
Lane
Lane

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