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south of the line
DCHP-3 (Mar 2023)
expression — Geography, Canada-US relations
(in) the United States of America.
Type: 3. Semantic Change — The expression south of the line is, in connection with line in the meaning of border, distinctly Canadian usage.
See: line ((n.))def. 2
Quotations
1837
To make gold flow in upon us from the United States, we should have to assimilate its value here to that south of the line 45;
1880
"It is only to be hoped that the 1,000,000 OF NATIVE-BORN CANADIANS now on the south of the line will not be compelled to fight upon the Yankee side.
1901
As a matter of fact, it [Canadian Pacific] pays higher wages than the Great Northern and Northern Pacific south of the line.
1944
Systemic stocking as practiced south of the line and rearing pools erected at moderate cost at convenient "Spring brooks" wold ensure a source of living for quite a few men, a constant supply of fish for the river and considerable flow of dollars to the pockets of the provincial population.
1978
He said he does not think Roy Bennett, the Canadian-born president of Ford Motor Co. of Canada, is coming in to con the Government of Canada or the Government of Ontario. At the same time, Mr. Davis said, he is faced with a board south of the line (which) will be making a judgment based on economic considerations.
2014
A familiar story from south of the line
The arguments from both railways and their critics are the same, and so is the result — a clogged system with farmers paying the price
The arguments from both railways and their critics are the same, and so is the result — a clogged system with farmers paying the price