back-water
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"When he was coming up, it definitely was a back-water kind of practice," said Lavin.
From Chicago Tribune ● Jun. 12, 2012
In 1914, when intelligence-testers began to impress the nation, Principal Persis K. Miller of Locust Point's public school asked Johns Hopkins' Psychiatrist Adolf Meyer to survey the community, a social back-water of Baltimore.
From Time Magazine Archive
Municipal government has long been regarded as the great back-water of American democracy: a world of political patronage and special-interest jockeying in which policy discussions rarely move beyond synchronizing traffic lights.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fenton stepped out of the little back-water in which Gaffney's place lay, and into the full flood of the glittering, high-smelling avenue.
From Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist by John T. McIntyre
He has come north by the back-water, which accounts for us not having seen him pass through Hippo Pool.
From The Fire-Gods A Tale of the Congo by Charles Gilson
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