beyond the black stump

In or of an extremely remote, isolated, and/or uncivilized location, usually meaning the Australian outback. "Black stump" is used colloquially as an imaginary marker of the edge of civilized settlement, though the origin of the term is uncertain. Primarily heard in Australia. There are many people who still live beyond the black stump, lacking access to medical care and other basic social services.

beyond the black stump

beyond the limits of settled, and therefore civilized, life. Australian

This phrase comes from the custom of using a fire-blackened stump of wood as a marker when giving directions to travellers.

词组	beyond the black stump
释义	beyond the black stump beyond the black stump In or of an extremely remote, isolated, and/or uncivilized location, usually meaning the Australian outback. "Black stump" is used colloquially as an imaginary marker of the edge of civilized settlement, though the origin of the term is uncertain. Primarily heard in Australia. There are many people who still live beyond the black stump, lacking access to medical care and other basic social services. See also: beyond, black, stump Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. beyond the black stump beyond the limits of settled, and therefore civilized, life. Australian This phrase comes from the custom of using a fire-blackened stump of wood as a marker when giving directions to travellers. See also: beyond, black, stump Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary See also: back of the black stump stump this side of the black stump backwater chillin chillin’ black stump cruisin cruisin’ for a bruisin’ References in periodicals archive Visiting all of these sites would take yonks, around half a lifetime tells Evans, and would involve using lots of petrol, shoes, and time travelling beyond the Black Stump and back o' Bourke. Eamon Evans, Mount Buggery to nowhere else: the stories behind Australia's weird and wonderful place names Nevil Shute--an aeronautics engineer turned 'prodigiously productive' author, as he is described in Fallout penned potboilers of wartime derringdo interspersed with markedly more ambitious works: A Town like Alice, Beyond the Black Stump and Trustee from the Toolroom. Beneath our radiant mushroom cloud: Fallout In Australia, if you are "beyond the black stump," then you are a very long way from anywhere! Quality web sites for education
随便看	be gunning for beg your pardon, but be had be had up (for something) behalf be half-cut be half-dead be half the battle (won) be half the (something) (one) used to be be hand and foot to (one) be hanging on by (one's) fingertips be hanging on by your fingertips be hanging over (one) be hanging over (one's) head be hanging over your head Be happy to be happy to (do something) be hard at it be hard done-by be hard hit (by something) be hard on (one) be hard on somebody be hard-pressed be hard pushed be hard put