English Reference

Idiom

line of country

Meaning

One's area of specialization or interest.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“Fixing old computers is not really my line of country.”

“I appreciate your advice on the stock market, but that is not my line of country.”

“While he was a brilliant historian, quantum physics was entirely outside his line of country.”

Examples

simple

“Fixing old computers is not really my line of country.”

contextual

“I appreciate your advice on the stock market, but that is not my line of country.”

complex

“While he was a brilliant historian, quantum physics was entirely outside his line of country.”

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