back of beyond
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back of beyond
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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.
noun the back of beyond
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A very remote place.
[Y]ou, wi’ some o’ your auld warld stories, that the mind o’ man canna resist, whirl’d them to the back o’ beyont to look at the auld Roman camp—[…]
Similar: beyond the black stump, remote place
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noun A remote place
| Español | quinto pino |
|---|---|
| Português | quinto dos infernos |
| Italiano | capo al mondo, casa del Diavolo, casa di Dio |
| Ελληνικά | στου διαβόλου τη μάνα stou diavólou ti mána |
| Русский | у чёрта на рогах u čórta na rogax, у чёрта на куличках u čórta na kuličkax |
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