in the boonies

in the boonies

In a very distant or remote location, often one that lacks modern amenities. That place is all the way out in the boonies—it'll take us hours to get there. Good luck getting a cell signal out here in the boonies.
See also: boonies
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • boonies
  • boonies, the
  • the boonies
  • in the boondocks
  • (with) all mod cons
  • all mod cons
  • con
  • mod
  • freeloader
  • it'll be a cold day in hell
References in periodicals archive
Personally - to get married, have children, live in the boonies!
Beau Han Bridge
Perhaps my first taste of non-kosher food happened when I was about 9, at a Jewish sleepaway camp in the boonies of Massachusetts.
Long Live the Filet-O-Fish, the McDonald's Sandwich for Jews
(2) Genre-crossing folk-pop-country musician Jewel has her spread in the boonies near Stephenville, Texas, up for grabs at $335,000, after it was first and briefly listed at $350,000.
Jewel's 4-Acre digs in Dallas listed for sale
I guess that qualifies me as a homesteader who lives in the boonies of the Salmon River Valley in central Idaho.--Betty K.
Too much of a good thing!
With the .375 H&H you can go into the smallest gun store in the boonies anywhere in the world and get ammo.
Ammo availability issue
That's never a good situation when you're out in the boonies.
Tap, tap beats whack, bang!
It was quite a coincidence the Zero team happened to wander upon our seven-stair session at 4:00am, a rail out in the boonies hidden behind a church at 4:00am, or the next day when he wouldn't answer our calls--then we saw him at the park with the Zero guys.
Let's start a war: Darkstar: an underdog story
Spread across 135 square miles hidden in the boonies of the rainforest, the eco-cops are learning how to raid illegal mining and logging squats and apprehend thieves stealing plants and animals.
Forest cops
Therefore, I was assigned as the squadron driver and was assigned to unload truckloads of ordinance from the ships and transport them to the ordinance depot way out in the boonies all night long without as much as a man riding shotgun.
Whatever happened to military discipline?
He had had a big bite of the American dream, and for someone who started out as a farm boy in the boonies, that had been quite an adventure.
Peace on Earth: in two stories of people who have lost hope, Alice Camille reminds us that sometimes peace on Earth comes in small packages
Many considered Waipahu-based Arakawa's to be out in the boonies. "We'd tell people that we were only 10 minutes from Hickam," recalls Goro Arakawa.
What's stopping your customers?
There were no townhouses in the boonies until Reston."
The radical 'burbs: tracing the surprising roots of social experimentation. (Culture and Reviews)
As far back as the 1960s, when McHenry County was considered to be out in the boonies of northern Illinois, dailies from Chicago, Wheaton, and Arlington Heights were already sending circulation trucks on the long drive to what were then quaint villages along the Fox River Valley.
10 That Do It RIGHT - Northwest Herald
I is stuck out in the boonies. Its new architectural grandness brings the place a little closer in spirit - if not in actual distance - to Manhattan.
Back to school
"Meanwhile, out here in the boonies, people are drying prematurely of cancer, we got fish in the rivers that nobody wants to eat, and babies are being born with bad kidneys and lungs."
The dirty history of nuclear power