Brother Jonathan

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a personification of the United States.

See: Jonathan(def. 1)

Quotations

1811

. . . so great is the terror of Brother Jonathan at another visit from General Brock that . . . they . . . scuttled fifty large boats. . . .

1813

. . . Jonathan is said to have taken all that came into his fangs without discrimination.

1962

Big-Brother Jonathan is no longer friendly Uncle Sam to us, but our landlord, adviser and stern disciplinarian.