land of fruits and nuts
n.— «Last year, San Francisco 49ers came out of the land of fruits and nuts to surprise almost everyone and become NFL champions.» —“NFC West holds surprises Falcons should soar; 49ers must dig deep” by Al Strachan Globe and Mail (Toronto, Can.) Sept. 7, 1982. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
It was a dark and stormy night. So begins the long and increasingly convoluted prose of Edwards Bulwer-Lytton’s best-known novel. Today the annual Bulwer-Lytton Contest asks contestants for fanciful first sentences that are similarly...
Ophelia in Johnson City, Tennessee, wonders about the exclamation her great-grandmother often used when something surprised her: Cat bristle! That may be her own version of a minced oath, although it fits with the idea of how a cat’s tail might look...