the other place

English

Noun

the other place

1. (euphemistic) Hell

   According to Christianity, when someone dies, they go to either Heaven or the other place.

2. (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'[.]

3. (UK, Oxford University slang, derogatory) University of Cambridge
4. (UK, Cambridge University slang, derogatory) University of Oxford

See also

• another place
• the other body

References

• Glossary, UK Parliament