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Back of beyond

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A very remote place. Australia, British, Canada, Ireland, informal, usually

    "[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—[…]"

  2. 2
    a very remote and inaccessible place wordnet

Etymology

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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