nation vs old sod

nation

noun
  • A sovereign state. 

  • Damnation. 

  • An association of students based on its members' birthplace or ethnicity. 

  • A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture. 

adv
  • Extremely, very. 

old sod

noun
  • The old country; one's place of origin. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see old, sod (person). 

How often have the words nation and old sod occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )