No-man-s-land meaning
- Tracts of uninhabited territory close to the Iron Curtain.
- The stretch of land between the border posts of two contiguous sovereign states, sometimes separated by great distance.
- Land not claimed by any recognized sovereign state; terra nullius.
Origin of no-man-s-land
- A dispatch printed in the Times newspaper by Colonel E. Swinton writing as "Eyewitness"
From Wiktionary