the other place
English
editNoun
edit- (euphemistic) Hell
- According to Christianity, when someone dies, they go to either Heaven or the other place.
- (parliamentary) the other house of a bicameral legislature (used by members of one house when speaking in their own house); in the UK, the House of Lords seen from the House of Commons or vice versa; in Canada, the Senate seen from the House of Commons or vice versa.
- 1999, Gyles Brandreth, chapter 3, in Breaking the Code:
- [W]e all trooped from our end of the building to the House of Lords - which I'm told, for some reason, we must never refer to by name. We have to call it 'another place' or 'the other place'[.]
- (UK, Oxford University slang, derogatory) University of Cambridge
- (UK, Cambridge University slang, derogatory) University of Oxford
See also
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edit- Glossary, UK Parliament