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banana belt
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1
a region reputed to have a relatively moderate climate (often used facetiously).
Quotations
1897
This is a truthful pen-picture of a mid-January day in the now far-famed "banana belt" country. . . .
1958
We called back bantering remarks about the softness of his summer's work in the "banana belt."
1965
The weather office said that the Arctic temperatures and snow that changed Canada's winter banana belt [south-western B.C.] to one of its unhappiest regions are moving inland.
2 — North
the more populated, southerly regions of Canada; outside (def. 1).
See: outside ((n.))(def. 1)
Quotations
1913
Somebody facetiously remarks it looks mighty like snow to him outside and we haven't reached the banana belt yet.
1958
[Yellowknife's] social life is amazingly active, and its climate, to the surprise of banana belt visitors, is not as severe as rumored.
1962
Churchill's nearest neighbor, Thompson, is almost indistinguishable from a suburb in the banana belt.