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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

... were very far from appreciating America's decision at its full value. For a year we had had the upper-hand of the Hun. To use the language of the trenches, we knew that we could go across No Man's Land and "beat him up" any time we liked. To tell the truth, many of us felt a little jealous that when, after two years of punishment, we had at last become top-dog, we should be called upon to share the glory of victory with soldiers of the eleventh hour. We believed that we were ...

— Out To Win - The Story of America in France • Coningsby Dawson

... a "No Man's Land," it was the space between the two armies which had aptly been called the "Plain of Death." Any one who ventured upon it thought very little of this life, and it was well that he should, as he had little of it left to think ...

— Before the Dawn - A Story of the Fall of Richmond • Joseph Alexander Altsheler

... No Man's Land there came a sort o' greenish yellow cloud. No man there knew what it meant. There was a hissing and a writhing, as of snakes, and like a snake the gas came toward them. It reached them, and men began to cough and choke. And other men fell doon, and their ...

— Between You and Me • Sir Harry Lauder

... engagements across No Man's Land between the mingled French, British and French forces and the Huns, and honors were on the side of the former. There had been one or two combats in the air, in which Tom and Jack had taken part, when one day word came from an observation balloon ...

— Air Service Boys in the Big Battle • Charles Amory Beach

... other on high ground overlooking an almost flat plain through which the wadi Ghuzze runs. All the observation was in enemy possession, and to attack over this ground would have been inviting disaster. There was little fear that the Turks would attack us across this wide range of No Man's Land, for we held secure control of the curiously shaped heaps of broken earth about Shellal, and the conical hill at Fara gave an uninterrupted view for several miles northward and eastward. The position was very different about Beersheba. If we ...

— How Jerusalem Was Won - Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine • W.T. Massey

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