country bumpkin
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“Shanghai was the place to be. It had the best restaurants, the best nightclubs, the coolest people. I felt like such a country bumpkin, but I learned fast.”
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2024
So a school that I had never visited, Harvard, took an enormous risk and accepted me, and I became a token country bumpkin to round out a class of polished overachievers.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 28, 2023
Memphis, a guitar-strumming gentle giant with a country bumpkin way — touchingly incarnated by Sheldon D. Brown — is the main target of Waters’ irrational ire.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2023
Ferociously single-minded, very impressed with herself and determined to take her new school by storm, she’s also a quick-to-embarrass country bumpkin, a classic setup for teenage comedy.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2023
“But I’m a country bumpkin and this is my first city party so you have to forgive me.”
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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