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No man's land

noun

An unoccupied area between the front lines of opposing armies.

Land that is unowned and uninhabited (and usually undesirable).

The ambiguous region between two categories or states or conditions (usually containing some features of both). Synonym: twilight zone. "In the twilight zone between humor and vulgarity" , "In that no man's land between negotiation and aggression"

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"No man's land" Quotes from Famous Books

... away, in full marching order within 40 minutes from the time the order was received. On May 28th, the Brigade moved forward north of the Auja, in reserve for the attack by the 7th Indian Division, but this movement was merely intended to capture a few enemy posts in order to narrow "no man's land," and thus bring ourselves into closer touch with the enemy. The Brigade remained "standing-by" at half an hour's notice until the evening of the 30th, when it returned ...

— Through Palestine with the 20th Machine Gun Squadron • Unknown

... is such a madcap," she said. "How shall we keep him from getting up to mischief in No Man's Land precisely ...

— Rosa Mundi and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell

... This whole countryside is a ruined waste—villages destroyed, weeds overgrowing everything; and no inhabitants except troops. It was strange to walk over the old trench systems and the broad green band between them (still thickly strewn with barbed wire) that used to be No Man's Land. One thought of the Englishmen, Frenchmen and Germans who sat for so long in those trenches, peering at each other furtively from time to time, each doing all he could to kill the enemy, and from time to time raiding one another's ...

— War Letters of a Public-School Boy • Henry Paul Mainwaring Jones

... sq km note: includes West Bank, Latrun Salient, and the northwest quarter of the Dead Sea, but excludes Mt. Scopus; East Jerusalem and Jerusalem No Man's Land are also included only as a means of depicting the entire area occupied by Israel in 1967 water: 220 sq ...

— The 2002 CIA World Factbook • US Government

... them or build ships themselves; and the Germans then turned from the task of destroying the British Navy to that of destroying the commerce on which we depended for subsistence, from the hope of securing the command of the sea for themselves to that of turning it into a "no man's land," a desert which no allied or ...

— A Short History of the Great War • A.F. Pollard

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