(idiomatic, chiefly southern US) This is a big problem; there is unavoidable or demanding work ahead.

plural of Channel Island fox

Dated form of possession is nine-tenths of the law.

One who has possession of a thing has some right to it; a popular statement of the doctrine of adverse possession.

Somebody from the Marshall Islands.

Somebody from the Solomon Islands.

plural of ischium

(geography) A group of islands between Japan and Kamchatka, separating the Sea of Okhotsk from the North Pacific Ocean

(idiomatic, often ironic) A common excuse used by debtors to put off creditors

Official name of Mauritania.