(out) in the sticksAREAa long way from a town or city 在偏远乡村,在边远地区 They live out in the sticks. 他们住在偏远的乡村。
(out) in the sticks• Three years on, what to make of the original inner city mama, out here in the sticks?• We must have been right out in the sticks.• You two behaved as if we were still in the sticks.
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