next year country
n.— «Over the last 15 years, the Saskatchewan Roughriders have often gathered to clean out their lockers at the end of another CFL season knowing they faced a winter of excuses. In a place farmers often refer to as “next year country,” the football team had grown to emulate the cliche.» —“Grey Cup-champion Riders looking forward to an excuse-free CFL off-season” in Regina, Saskatchewan Canadian Press Nov. 30, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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