stamping ground BrE
stomping ground AmE

Go up into your old stamping ground where people know you.

A party conference is a natural stamping ground for those who have barely four days in which to make a mark.

Not my sort of stamping ground, let me tell you."

Two minutes later, the captain knew that he was back in his old stamping grounds.

We'd had a wonderful break without even leaving our everyday stamping ground.

"I heard an explosion down toward your private stamping ground.

Looking forward to being on your old stamping grounds again?"

I am pleased in one sense, because it enables me to return to a former stamping ground.

You head for his old stamping grounds and start digging holes.

When the Christians took over their stamping grounds they were left stranded here.

For the 1929 general election he returned to his old stamping ground of Leeds.

History has traditionally been a stamping ground upon which artists seek to understand our complex nature.

Once such a group, an extended family sort of thing, loses its stamping grounds, it has no life.

Now was his chance show those at his old stamping ground just how far he had developed since moving on.

From there on Jane was on her own stamping ground.

But the three-day visit is more than an emotional return to an old stamping ground for the Russian president.

A Stamping Ground post office operated for a short time in 1816.

It was his old stamping ground when he was with the Provos.

In 1834 the name was changed to Stamping Ground.

"I'm sorry I frightened you out of your favorite stamping ground," he said rather aimlessly.

But not your place, of course: we're a good four hundred light years from your usual stamping grounds.

Social inequality is the party's traditional stamping ground, the crucible from which it was originally born.

In their stamping grounds in the jungle the three were familiar figures.

"Back on the old stamping ground, are you?"

Ms. Millstone was bereft; she had lost her stamping grounds.

What was she doing here, so far from her own stomping grounds?

"Sure was good to get back to my old stomping grounds."

This is her stomping ground until someone win as many slams down there.

This side of the Atlantic is our stomping grounds, and he knows it.

I'll reach out to the authorities in his old stomping grounds, see if they can give us anything to go on.

Then time moved on, and their old stomping grounds became largely overlooked.

Enter the stomping ground of government in this cosmopolitan capital city.

And Marcy, he knew, wanted to move back to her old stomping grounds.

"Five minutes back in your old stomping grounds and you'll be singing a different tune."

For others, Wall Street is just a temporary stomping ground.

Unfortunately, the situation in Boston, my current stomping ground, is only markedly better.

Their stomping ground is the cartoon or the gentle family comedy.

"So how does it feel to be slumming in your old stomping grounds?"

And then, perhaps, we could stop in Paris on the way home, stomping ground of my misspent youth.

Also, the Columbia campus is my old stomping ground.

If we walk the whole way, that's not going to give you any time to visit your old stomping ground," she pointed out.

She meets him at Stomping Ground, where they dance together.

Not bad for a guy who set out to record a modest meditation on his boyhood stomping ground.

And Zarqawi made the coming back to his old stomping ground.

"I stayed at the shore - that was my stomping grounds," she said.

North Beach, the popular stomping grounds for tourists, is much more enjoyable to walk around than to drive.

"The Capri was my old stomping ground," he said nostalgically.

After all, it was run on his stomping grounds."

You married me when my face looked like a stomping ground, and you had no way to know what damage might be permanent.

Well, near his former stomping grounds, at least.