in the sticks
Example Sentences
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"It's not like I live out in the sticks."
From BBC ● May 10, 2023
“And that’s a tribute to those down and distances when you’re ahead in the sticks a little bit.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 28, 2022
It's not like these places were way off out in the sticks where people couldn't know about them.
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2022
In “Joyride,” an 8-year-old daughter of divorce, AJ, chauffeurs her father into a flood zone “out here in the sticks, with the coyotes and the rusted-out oil rigs.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2021
“We’re going farther out in the sticks than that,” she said, grunting.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
