Meanings
- USderogatoryslangDerogatory name for California: a state of the United States.
We were all young software company executives, but I was the one from out of state, the one from the land of fruit and nuts, and no one could see my nuts, they would say.
2013, Bob Mack Peak, The 85% Man and Lessons from Lucille2 more examples
You can make a book on some of the people who were there. That is, if you get a chance to see them perform before some midnight rider from the William Morris Agency makes off with them to the land of fruits and nuts.
1970 August 30, Terry Galanoy, “Ted Liss-talent polisher”, in Chicago Tribune, page 42This is very important to me right now because I always have an automobile accident after a break-up, and Sandra, my lover of five years, just left me for some babe who lives in San Francisco, the promised land of fruit and nuts.
1998, Achy Obejas, We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?
Origin
In reference both to the agricultural bounty of the state, and to the suggested character of its people, fruit being slang for a gay or effeminate man, and nut for a crazy person.
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