back of beyond

短语

遥远的地方

发音

AU

词形变化

the back of beyond

别名

back o' beyond

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A very remote place.

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词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

depths

词源

First attested in the Scottish novelist Walter Scott’s The Antiquary (1816; see quotation). It is quite possible that Scott anglicised a rural expression rather than coined it himself—something he did numerous times with other phrases.

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