back of beyond

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A very remote place. Australia,Canada,Ireland,UK,informal
    — [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—[…]

词形变化

the back of beyond canonical

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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