at the back of beyond

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at/in the back of beyond

in a place which is far away from other towns and difficult to get to He lives in some tiny, remote village in the back of beyond.

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Now and then he volunteered a little, a very little, information about his own sotnia of Cossacks, left apparently to look after themselves somewhere at the back of beyond. The Man Who Was by Kipling, Rudyard View in context More results

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