stranger in a strange land

cliché One who is new to a particular country or culture that one finds unfamiliar and unusual or peculiar. When I was just 12 years old, I took a ferry across the English Channel to live with my relatives in France. I felt totally lost in that world, a stranger in a strange land.

See also: land, strange, stranger

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drive (one) out of office
force (one) out of office
force out of office
give (one) (one's) head
give somebody their head
give someone his or her head
give someone his/her head, to
(something) pays for itself
as one door closes, another opens

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