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Back of beyond   /bæk əv bɪˈɑnd/   Listen
Back of beyond

noun
1.
A very remote and inaccessible place.






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"Back of beyond" Quotes from Famous Books



... really thought I was done for! One more effort, madam, and you would have pulled it off. But then I'm such a simple chap! It seemed to me that you had come from the back of beyond, as an emissary of Providence, to call me to account; and, like a fool, I was about to give the thing back.... Ah, Mlle. Hortense—let me call you so: I used to know you by that name—Mlle. Hortense, what you lack, to use a vulgar ...
— The Eight Strokes of the Clock • Maurice Leblanc

... anxious to get rid of us and bury us at the back of beyond," I said, nettled and unable to conceal my chagrin at the matter-of-fact way in which he wished to ...
— The Passenger from Calais • Arthur Griffiths

... away. Evidently the man had quarrelled with the landlord, and had been turned out of the hotel, for he came rolling along in a lurching, drunken manner, roaring out a wild and savage ditty, picked up, no doubt, in some land at the back of beyond. ...
— The Bishop's Secret • Fergus Hume



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